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B-406700.3 1 (2012-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpfg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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 Decision [e for pic release. Matter of: TestVonics Inc. File: B-406700.3 Date: December 4, 2012 Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for the protester. Ronald S. Perlman, Esq., and Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Custom Manufacturing and Engineering, Inc., an intervenor. W. Michael Rose, Esq., Charles R. Epperson, Esq., and Jonathan L. Simpson, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably and unfairly evaluated the past performance of the protester and awardee is denied where record shows that agency's evaluation was reasonable, consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and not the result of unequal treatment. DECISION TestVonics, Inc., of Petersborough, New Hampshire, protests the award of a contract to Custom Manufacturing and Engineering, Inc. (CME), of Pinellas Park, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8533-09-R-21835, issued by the Department of the Air Force for a quantity of flight control system test sets. TestVonics maintains that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplates the award of a fixed-price contract to the firm submitting the proposal deemed to offer the best value to the government, considering price and several non-price considerations. RFP at 65. The acquisition is a 100-percent small business set-aside and is being conducted as a commercial product acquisition under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12. The RFP provided

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