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B-401560 1 (2009-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbaj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AlL A , G A O Comptroller General ,c c ountabiity * 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: AMI-ACEPEX, Joint Venture File: B-401560 Date: September 30, 2009 Christopher Solop, Esq., and Lynn Patton Thompson, Esq., Robinson, Biggs, Ingram, Solop & Farris, PLLC, for the protester. William A. Roberts, III, Esq., Richard B. O'Keeffe, Jr., Esq., John R. Prairie, Esq., Trayce Winfrey Howard, Esq., and Nicole P. Wishart, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Chugach World Services, Inc., an intervenor. Richard J. Huber, Esq., and Julio Ocampo, Esq., Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where past performance and experience evaluations were based in part on relevance--similarity in size, scope, and complexity--agency reasonably established size threshold for relevance at approximately one-half annual value of solicited work, and reasonably rated protester no higher than satisfactory for experience and past performance based on single project above threshold, despite high rating on that project from past performance reference. 2. Agency reasonably evaluated protester's proposal as satisfactory under technical approach factor where proposal failed to address a required position and lacked discussion of specific risks, and agency had concerns with performance risk where price proposal indicated lack of available capital funds. 3. Agency properly considered past performance and experience record of awardee's parent firm and affiliates where awardee's proposal demonstrated that resources of those entities would affect performance and solicitation did not prohibit consideration of parent/affiliate information. DECISION AMI-ACEPEX, Joint Venture (AAJV), of Harmon, Guam, protests the award of a contract to Chugach World Services, of Anchorage, Alaska, under request for