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B-411733,B-411733.4 1 (2015-10-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrpy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Aerostar Perma-Fix TRU Services, LLC File: B-411733; B-411733.4 Date: October 8, 2015 William M. Jack, Esq., Dorn C. McGrath III, Esq., Holly A. Roth, Esq., and Amba M. Datta, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, and Michael J. Schaengold, Esq., Greenberg Traurig LLP, for the protester. Anne B. Perry, Esq., and Katie Calogero, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for North Wind Group, the intervenor. Ronald Freeman, Esq., Charmaine A. Howson, Esq., Timothy B. O'Keefe, Esq., and H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's technical evaluation is denied where record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of relevant experience is denied where agency's assignment of weaknesses to protester's proposal, including a weakness for failing to follow solicitation's instruction that each team member submit a form identifying relevant experience, was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 3. Protest of evaluation of past performance by awardee's subcontractor under the incumbent contract is denied where the agency reasonably assigned a rating of neither favorable nor unfavorable based on the totality of the past performance, including not only significant performance problems, but also the contractor's corrective action and recent very good or satisfactory performance. DECISION Aerostar Perma-Fix TRU Services, LLC (APT), of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, an 8(a) mentor-prot6g6 joint venture, protests the Department of Energy's (DOE) award of a contract to North Wind Group, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-SOL-