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B-310136 1 (2007-11-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaujo0001 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: Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc. File: B-310136 Date: November 26, 2007 John Lukjanowicz, Esq., for the protester. Heather M. Self, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Evaluation of awardee's past performance was reasonable, notwithstanding protester's identification of alleged negative information concerning awardee, where agency did not have personal knowledge of some of the information, and fully considered information of which it was aware. DECISION Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Ferguson Management Company South under request for proposals (RFP) No. AG024B-S-07-0009, issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Forest Service, for wildland fire-fighting crews. Firestorm challenges the technical capability and past performance evaluations. We deny the protest. The RFP, a small business set-aside, sought proposals for the services of 20-person fire-fighting crews at sites within specified distances of 6 national forests (10 contract line items (CLIN)). Proposals were to be evaluated on the basis of four factors--past performance, technical capabilities, training/safety, and price. Past performance was to be evaluated on the basis of quality of services, customer satisfaction, timeliness of performance, trends in performance, and business relationships. Under this factor, the evaluators could consider proposal information, 1 Firestorm initially challenged an award to Mountaineers Fire Crew, LLC but, after reviewing the agency report (AR), Firestorm withdrew that basis of protest.

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