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B-284032 1 (2000-02-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakzd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting 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: Universal Fabric Structures, hie. File: B-284032 Date: February 10, 2000 Robert Fryling, Esq., and Edward J. Hoffman, Esq., Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley, for the protester. John E. Lariccia, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against agency's evaluation of awardee's past performance is denied where record shows that agency had a reasonable basis for assigning an overall excellent rating to the firm's past performance. DECISION Universal Fabric Structures, Inc. protests the award of a contract to American Spaceframe Fabricators, Inc. (ASFI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. F08635- 99-R-0077, issued by the Department of the Air Force for portable B-2 bomber shelter systems. Universal argues that the agency misevaluated ASFI's past performance.' We deny the protest. The RFP sought fixed-price offers for both a single unit for qualification testing and several additional optional production units. The shelters are essentially portable metal frame and fabric membrane structures that will be used to create a climate- 'In its initial protest, Universal also argued that the agency improperly misled it during discussions and misevaluated its technical proposal. The agency provided its detailed response to these assertions, and Universal made no mention of the allegations in its comments responding to the agency report. We deem these arguments abandoned. Ventura Petroleum Servs., Inc., B-281278, Jan. 21, 1999, 99-1 CPD I 15 at 4 n 1.

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