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B-309869 1 (2007-09-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauit0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * 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 version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: KIC Development, LLC File: B-309869 Date: September 26, 2007 William K. Walker, Esq., Walker Reausaw, for the protester. Daniel L. Winand, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Allegation that awardee's prior contracts were not sufficiently similar in dollar value to work being solicited to be deemed relevant under past performance evaluation factor is denied where solicitation did not contain dollar threshold for relevance and past performance evaluation was otherwise reasonable and consistent with solicitation. DECISION KIC Development, LLC protests the award of a contract to Sergent Mechanical Systems, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCG88-07-R-623221, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, for construction services. KIC asserts that the agency improperly determined that the awardee had relevant past performance. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on March 30, 2007 as a small business set-aside, sought proposals for all labor, materials, and equipment necessary to rehabilitate six buildings, design and construct a seventh building, and demolish and reconstruct an eighth building at the Coast Guard facility on Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, California. Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal provided the best value, with the evaluation to be based on two equally-weighted factors--price and relevant past performance. RFP at 37 (emphasis in original). The past performance evaluation factor was further broken down into seven subfactors (of equal importance): relevant experience, timeliness, quality of project execution, quality of construction services, management/business relations, effective subcontractor coordination, and

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