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B-299931 1 (2007-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauhk0001 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: GlassLock, Inc. File: B-299931; B-299931.2 Date: October 10, 2007 Robert S. Brams, Esq., and Elizabeth M. Gill, Esq., Patton Boggs LLP, for the protester. Jonathan S. Baker, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under a solicitation for competitive quotations issued under the Federal Supply Schedule program that only provided for vendors to submit prior experience/past performance references for the past 5 years, an agency improperly considered and awarded strengths, based on information provided by the successful vendor with its quotation, for projects that were completed more than 5 years ago. 2. Agency failed to evaluate quotations reasonably or in accordance with the solicitation where strengths relating to the successful vendor's experience and past performance were assigned under the project plan/schedule technical factor, which did not encompass evaluation of the vendor's experience and past performance, and where the solicitation contained a separate evaluation factor for experience/past performance under which the successful vendor received consideration for its experience/past performance. 3. Under solicitation for competitive quotations issued under the Federal Supply Schedule program that provided for a tradeoff analysis with technical factors being more important than price, agency improperly based issuance of an order on the lowest-priced, technically acceptable quotation. DECISION GlassLock, Inc. protests the award of a task order to Commercial Window Shield (CWS) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ-DC-07-00168, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the procurement and installation of window retrofits for window glass fragment retention in 15 EPA facilities in the

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