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 2001-03-30 monographic deposited born digital 12 p. GA 1.13:B-285288.3 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-285288-3 P0b002ee18fd434e3 f:2852883 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-285288-3 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-285288-3 B-285288.3 Comptroller General Decision 1. Agency reasonably determined in evaluating the offerors' past performance that there was a significant difference in risk between the awardee, which was rated excellent, and the protester, which was rated marginal, based on the offerors' recent contract performance, including the offerors' different records of responding to the agency in resolving production failures, and that this difference justified the payment of a price premium to the awardee.<p/>2. Agency reasonably determined that the awardee's quality plan was superior to the protester's.<p/>3. Agency's improper failure to consider a change in the government's requirements, in reevaluating proposals and making a new award selection, did not prejudice the protester, even crediting the protester's assertion that its price advantage would have been 15 percent rather than the 12 percent stated in the award selection document if the changed requirements had been considered, where there is no indication that the award selection would have been different, given the awardee's superior past performance and quality plan, and the protester's marginal past performance, which was found to represent a serious risk that the government could not assume. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-285288-3/html/GAOREPORTS-B-285288-3.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-285288-3/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-285288-3.pdf GAO/B-285288.3 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-285288-3 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-285288.3; Parmatic Filter Corporation, B-285288.3; B-285288.4, March 30, 2001;