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B-420679 Jun 21, 2022 1 (2022-06-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaongo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                       Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                 of the United States
DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                           a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
been approved for public release.
Matter of: Technica LLC
File:     B-420679
Date:     June 21, 2022
Adam K. Lasky, Esq., Bret C. Marfut, Esq., and Zachary F. Jacobson, Esq., Seyfarth
Shaw LLP, for the protester.
Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Edmund M. Amorosi, Esq., and Jonathan K. Keller, Esq.,
Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for Amentum Services, Inc., the intervenor.
Timothy J. Ryan, Esq., and Kevin F. Phillips, Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency.
Todd C. Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that the agency failed to consider a negative reference of past performance for
the awardee is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably considered
the negative past performance as not providing helpful information.
DECISION
Technica, LLC, of Charleston, South Carolina, protests the award of a contract to
Amentum Services, Inc., of Germantown, Maryland, the incumbent contractor, under
request for proposals (RFP) No. SP3300-21-R-5005, issued by the Defense Logistics
Agency for warehousing and distribution services. Technica alleges that the agency
unreasonably evaluated Amentum's past performance.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
On July 29, 2021, DLA issued the RFP to procure warehousing and distribution services
for DLA Distribution, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFP
at 1, 13. The RFP contemplated the award of a hybrid indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity contract with fixed-price, cost reimbursable, and cost-plus-fixed-fee
line items to be performed over a 5-year ordering period. AR, Tab 3, RFP, amend. 7,
attach. 3 at 8.

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