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B-401553 1 (2009-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbam0001 and id is 1 raw text is: li AL A , G A O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * 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. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Commissioning Solutions Global, LLC File: B-401553 Date: October 6, 2009 Robert S. Reich, Esq., and W. Jacob Gardner, Esq., Reich Album & Plunkett, LLC, for the protester. Bruce C. Smith, Esq., W. Cody Goff, Esq., and William S. Sheppard, Esq., Morris Manning & Martin, LLP, for Riverhawk Marine, LLC, an intervenor. Talbot J. Nicholas II, Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a best value procurement involving the evaluation of past performance and price, agency's selection of a higher-priced quotation from a vendor that received an excellent rating for past performance as compared to the protester, who received a neutral rating, was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation, where the agency made reasonable assessments of the relevancy of vendors' past performance and reasonably determined that the quotation from the vendor with the more relevant performance record was worth the higher price. DECISION Commissioning Solutions Global, LLC (CommSol) of Mandeville, Louisiana, protests the award of a contract to Riverhawk Marine, LLC (Riverhawk) of Tampa, Florida, issued by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HSCG80-09-Q-3FAJ23 for dry dock repairs to the USCG Cutter Sapelo. The RFQ, issued on April 3, 2009 as a total small business set-aside, provided for the award of a fixed-priced contract in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.5 Test Program for Commercial Items. The RFQ stated that award would be made based on the evaluation of past performance and price, with

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