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B-299805 1 (2007-07-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaugn0001 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: Midwest Metals File: B-299805 Date: July 17, 2007 Dave Murar for the protester. Maj. Walter R. Dukes, and Pamela Kennerly-Ignatius, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Issuance of purchase order to higher-priced vendor with lower evaluated performance risk was unobjectionable where request for quotations advised that evaluation could involve tradeoff between price and performance risk, and agency concluded that successful vendor's lower evaluated performance risk made its quotation the best value despite protester's lower-quoted price. DECISION Midwest Metals (Midwest) protests the issuance of a delivery order to Alpha Technologies under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W52H09-07-T-0167, issued by the Department of the Army for 90 headless pins and 800 round nuts. Midwest challenges the Army's use of the Past Performance Information Retrieval System-Statistical Reporting (PPIRS-SR) in measuring performance risk and the evaluation of its proposal. We deny the protest. The solicitation was issued on January 28, 2007 as a small business set-aside and incorporated FAR clause 52.213-4, Terms and Conditions--Simplified Acquisitions (Other than Commercial Items). The solicitation contemplated a single award to the vendor whose quotation represented the best value to the Government based on

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