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U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548 of the United States
Decision
Matter of: KBT Contracting Corporation
File: B-422662.2
Date: December 12, 2024
Rebecca Timmons for the protester.
Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Paula Barr, Esq., Sean B. Zehtab, Esq., and Joshua Reyes,
Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Procuring agency reasonably determined that protester's past performance reference
was not for a Department of Defense contract issued by a Department of Defense
component where the contract number did not conform to Federal Acquisition
Regulation requirements for numbering federal contracts and there was no other
information in the proposal demonstrating that it was a Department of Defense contract.
DECISION
KBT Contracting Corporation, of Jacksonville, Florida, protests the rejection of the
proposal it submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 1YN-24-R-
0002, issued by the Department of the Army, National Guard Bureau, for maintenance,
repair, construction, and design-build services in support of National Guard activities in
Florida. KBT asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its past performance.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The Army issued the solicitation on January 23, 2024, for the award of multiple
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for maintenance, repair, construction,
and design-build services. As relevant to this protest, the solicitation instructed offerors
to submit past performance examples for between five and seven projects that
demonstrated experience performing work like that required by the solicitation. Agency
Report (AR), Tab 3, RFP at 16. At least one of the submitted projects was required to
have been performed on a Department of Defense [(DOD)] contract issued by any](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaorfr0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)