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B-286875 1 (2001-02-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamnq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Power Connector, Inc. File: B-286875; B-286875.2 Date: February 14, 2001 Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., and Andrew P. Hallowell, Esq., Piliero, Mazza & Pargament, for the protester. Geoffrey A. Barrow, Esq., Jenner & Block, for Day Leather Corporation, an intervenor. Michael A. Lewis, Esq., Federal Prison Industries, 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 In evaluating past performance under solicitation for quantity of leather, agency reasonably disregarded non-leather supply contracts in its evaluation of the protester, and limited its evaluation to leather contracts, on the basis that leather contracts were the most relevant. DECISION Power Connector, Inc. (PCI) protests the award of a contract to Day Leather Corporation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 6200000119, issued by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, UNICOR, for leather to be used in manufacturing work gloves. PCI argues that UNICOR should have rejected Day's quotation as materially unbalanced, and that it misevaluated PCI's past performance. We deny the protest. The solicitation provided for a best value award of a fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract for a base year, with four 1-year option periods. The quotations were to be evaluated against three factors, listed in descending order of importance--past performance, compliance with technical specifications and price; the past performance and technical factors combined were significantly more important than price. RFQ at 39. In order to establish compliance with the technical specifications, vendors were required to submit samples and lab test results for evaluation on a pass/fail basis. Regarding past performance, vendors were required to complete a

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