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B-297742 1 (2006-03-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasnl0001 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: Trailboss Enterprises, Inc. File: B-297742 Date: March 20, 2006 Julia M. I. Holden, Esq., Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker LLP, for the protester. Michael J. O'Farrell, Jr., Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly considered past performance record of predecessor company of awardee in evaluation where solicitation specifically provided that such information would be considered. DECISION Trailboss Enterprises, Inc. protests the award of a contract to GCH Services LLC under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA5240-05-R-0015, issued by the Department of the Air Force for transient alert services and supplies at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The protester argues that the agency improperly evaluated its and the awardee's past performance and made an unreasonable award decision. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued August 4, 2005 as a small business set-aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a base year, with four 1-year options. The evaluation scheme incorporated a two-step review. First, technical proposals were to be evaluated on a pass/fail basis applying four subfactors: ability to understand and meet the requirements of the statement of work (SOW), corporate profile/ statement of qualifications, scheduling methodologies, and quality control procedures. An unacceptable rating under any subfactor would render a technical proposal's final rating unacceptable. RFP at 12. Under the second step, the agency would evaluate the technically acceptable proposals for past performance, conduct a past performance/price tradeoff among those proposals--with past performance significantly more important than price--and select the technically acceptable proposal determined to provide the best value. Id.

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