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B-296875 1 (2005-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqyn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: J.A. Farrington Janitorial Services File: B-296875 Date: October 18, 2005 Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Fran Baskin, Esq., Holmes & Gordon, for the protester. Clarence D. Long III, Esq., and Bradford L. Buchanan, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's rejection of fixed-price proposal submitted by HUBZone small business because the price was determined unrealistically low was improper, where the solicitation contains no evaluation criterion pertaining to price realism or understanding; such a determination concerns the offeror's responsibility, i.e., the offeror's ability and capacity to successfully perform the contract at its offered price, and must be submitted to the Small Business Administration for a possible certificate of competency. 2. Agency determination that the protester's past performance was only entitled to a confidence rating was reasonable and gave appropriate consideration to the considerable relevant and successful past performance of protester's mentor and major subcontractor, where the protester had no relevant past performance. 3. Protest challenging the past performance evaluation of the awardee is sustained where the record fails to explain why the contracts, on which the past performance rating was based, were relevant, given their relatively low dollar value compared to the estimated dollar value of the solicited contract. DECISION J.A. Farrington Janitorial Services (JAF) protests the award of a contract to Roberts Treescaping, LLC (RTS) under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA2543-04-R-0003, issued by the Department of the Air Force for integrated grounds management at Buckley Air Force Base (AFB), Colorado. We sustain the protest.

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