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B-298841 1 (2006-12-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptassg0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: John Blood File: B-298841; B-298841.2 Date: December 21, 2006 John Blood for the protester. Azine Farzami, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under tree thinning solicitation that requested a housing plan be provided with the quotation, awardee's quotation stated that its workers would camp on-site, but did not address or indicate that it would not comply with the housing provisions of the Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protection Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872 (2000), and was therefore not unacceptable; the agency did not have duty to specifically confirm prior to award that awardee would comply with the Act during contract performance. 2. Agency may properly consider an evaluator's personal knowledge of and documented past experiences with a vendor in a past performance evaluation. DECISION John Blood protests the agency's evaluation of quotations received in response to solicitation No. AG-82MK-S-06-0019, issued by the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, for tree thinning to protect area properties and power lines from wildfires in three units in the Gunnison Ranger District of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests in Colorado. We deny the protests. The request for quotations (RFQ), issued as a small business set-aside under simplified acquisition procedures, contemplated the award of a fixed-price order to the vendor whose quotation represented the best value to the government. Quotations were to be evaluated based on price, and the following four technical criteria listed in descending order of importance: technical capability, past

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