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B-281517 1 (1999-02-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajhe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Island Components Group, Inc. File: B-281517; B-281550 Date: February 19, 1999 John J. Tiner for the protester. Benjamin G. Perkins, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Jennifer Westfall-Mc Grail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests objecting to agency's evaluation of vendors' past delivery performance on the basis of data that do not distinguish between original and revised delivery dates are denied where agency demonstrates that delivery dates are never revised for the vast majority of contract line items; that data that do not distinguish between compliance with original and revised delivery dates still furnish meaningful information regarding a vendor's delivery performance; and that the agency will have no cost-effective means by which to evaluate past performance if it is not permitted to use the data. DECISION Island Components Group, Inc. protests the Defense Supply Center Richmond's (DSCR) inclusion in request for quotations (RFQ) Nos. SP0400-99-T-1755 and SP0430-99-Q-B271 of a clause providing for the evaluation of vendors' past performance on the basis of scores computed using the agency's Automated Best Value Model (ABVM). The protester argues that the data regarding delivery performance used by DSCR in computing the ABVM scores is open to manipulation by vendors because it does not distinguish between original and revised delivery dates and thus should not be relied upon. We deny the protests. DSCR issued RFQ No. SP0400-99-T-1755 for 21 electrical contact brush holder assemblies on October 30, 1998, with a due date for quotations of November 14. It issued RFQ No. SP0430-99-Q-B271 for 10 tachometer generator motors on November 10, with a due date for quotations of November 30. Each RFQ included DSCR's ABVM clause, which provides for selection of the vendor whose quotation represents the best value to the government, price and past performance

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