United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1996-07-30 monographic deposited born digital 4 p. GA 1.13:B-271869 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-271869 P0b002ee18fd486c9 f:271869 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-271869 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-271869 B-271869 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest challenging award under solicitation for flexor refurbishing services on the basis that the awardee did not, prior to award, demonstrate its compliance with a solicitation requirement for manufacturer testing and certification of refurbishing component's physical characteristics is denied since by its terms, this requirement was a performance requirement, not a precondition to award.<p/>2. Protest contending that solicitation failed to apprise offerors that award could be made on the basis of initial proposals is denied since solicitation included a reference to a Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision that contemplated this possibility; to the extent the protester challenges the agency's use of the predecessor version of the current FAR provision, the protest is untimely as this was evident from the face of the solicitation but was not challenged until after the solicitation closing time.<p/>3. Post-closing time protest challenging agency's failure to evaluate offerors' past performance is dismissed as untimely since the solicitation included no reference to evaluation of past performance, and thus offerors clearly were on notice from the face of the solicitation that past performance was not intended to be an evaluation factor. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-271869/html/GAOREPORTS-B-271869.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-271869/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-271869.pdf GAO/B-271869 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-271869 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-271869; Heart of Dixie Machine & Fabrication Company, Inc.;