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B-406963.3 1 (2012-10-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpdu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 I The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision aproved forP ublic release. Matter of: Software Engineering Services Corporation File: B-406963.3 Date: October 11, 2012 John M. Heida, Esq., for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., and Amy J. Spencer, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for Array Information Technology; and, Pavan I. Khoobchandani, Esq., Akerman Senterfitt LLP, for IndraSoft, Inc., the intervenors. Col. Mark S. Teskey and Jared D. Minsk, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's assignment of a limited confidence rating to the protester's proposal under the solicitation's past performance factor is unobjectionable where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Software Engineering Services Corporation (SESC) protests the evaluation of its proposal and the failure of its proposal to be selected for the award of a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8771-09-R-0021, issued by the Department of the Air Force. We deny the protest. The RFP provided for multiple awards of fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts, for a base period of 3 years, with four 1-year option periods, to small business offerors. Offerors were advised that the agency intended to award six to nine ID/IQ contracts, with the agency reserving the right to make more, less or no award at all as determined to be in the best interest of the government. RFP at 196. The solicitation provided that awards would be made to the offerors whose proposals represented the best value to the agency, using a Performance Price Tradeoff (PPT) ... methodology. Id. at 195.

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