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B-402634 1 (2010-06-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbiw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 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: Highland Engineering, Inc. File: B-402634 Date: June 8, 2010 David T. Ralston, Esq., and Frank S. Murray, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for the protester. Capt. Sean T. Nguyen, Esq., and Robert E. Vollmar II, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Assertion that agency's price evaluation failed to account for awardee's use of government-owned property in performing contract is denied where awardee certified in its proposal that it did not plan to use government-owned property and protester provided no evidence that awardee had such property in its possession. 2. Protest that agency failed to consider negative information regarding awardee's past performance is denied where solicitation specifically provided for evaluation of experience, but not past performance. 3. Protest that best value analysis was erroneous based on agency's failure to consider fact that protester's proposal was rated higher than awardee's under one subfactor is denied where record shows source selection official determined that proposals were essentially equal despite protester's higher subfactor rating. DECISION Highland Engineering, Inc. (HEI), of Howell, Michigan, protests the award of a contract to Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (MECO), of Covington, Louisiana, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV-09-R-0012, issued by the Department of the Army for lightweight water purifiers. HEI principally challenges the evaluation of MECO's proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND

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