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B-291432 1 (2002-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaojd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: JGB Enterprises, Inc. File: B-291432 Date: December 9, 2002 Nancy M. Camardo, Esq., and Joseph A. Camardo, Jr., Esq., for the protester. Robert F. Nelson for Angus Fire Armour Corp., the intervenor. Mary E. Carney, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly evaluated the protester's past performance is denied where the agency has provided a reasonable explanation for its evaluation and the protester has failed to rebut it. DECISION JGB Enterprises, Inc. protests the issuance of a purchase order by UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries) to Angus Fire Armour Corp. (AFAC) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VC0038-02, for two commercial items, nonmetallic hose assemblies and clamp pipe couplings. JGB protests the evaluation of its past performance. We deny the protest. The RFQ contemplated the award of a 3-year fixed-price indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract. The RFQ specified that the technical and price factors, when combined, were equal in importance to past performance. Selection was to be based on identification of the responsible vendor whose quotation, conforming to the RFQ, was most advantageous to the Government. RFP § M.l(a). The RFQ required that each vendor identify at least three contracts performed in the last 3 to 5 years similar in scope to this RFQ requirement. Vendors were required to provide a reference for each contract listed. The agency received quotations from JGB and AFAC by the due date. The contracting officer contacted three references for each vendor. The contracting

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