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G A 0Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States General Accounting 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: AC Technologies, Inc.
File: B-293013; B-293013.2
Date: January 14, 2004
J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon,
Hildebrant & Tolle, for the protester.
Edward H. Kim, Esq., Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, for Ace Info Solutions, Inc., an
intervenor.
Fred Kopatich, Esq., and Mark Langstein, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the
agency.
Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency misevaluated quotations in the area of past performance is
denied where record shows that agency reasonably downgraded protester based on
[deleted], and reasonably credited awardee for performance of contracts performed
by both it and its subcontractor where nothing in the solicitation prohibited the
agency from considering subcontractor's prior contracts.
DECISION
AC Technologies, Inc. (ACT) protests the issuance of a task order to Ace Info
Solutions, Inc. (AIS) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. AFJ6000-3-00630-I,
issued by the Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency, for
information technology (IT) services. ACT principally maintains that the agency
misevaluated quotations.
We deny the protest.
The RFQ, as amended, contemplated the issuance of a labor hours-based task order
under the successful vendor's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract. Firms were
advised that their quotations would be evaluated using price and several non-price
considerations. The non-price considerations (and their relative weights for
evaluation purposes) were past performance (30 points), management approach
(25 points), technical approach (25 points), and skill level of proposed staffing](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobacyop0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)