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 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2001-01-02 monographic deposited born digital 12 p. GA 1.13:B-286336 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-286336 P0b002ee18fd4ca9d f:286336 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-286336 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-286336 B-286336 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated awardee's past performance as "very good" is denied, even though the agency considered references of the awardee's parent corporation in the past performance evaluation, where the solicitation did not require any specific minimum of reference questionnaire responses and the agency received a reference questionnaire response regarding a comparable contract performed by the awardee rating its performance as "very good" to "excellent."<p/>2. Consistent with the solicitation's evaluation factors, agency reasonably found significant strengths in awardee's proposal that justified a technical rating that was significantly higher than that of protesters.<p/>3. In calculating probable costs of protesters' proposals, agency reasonably upwardly adjusted their costs where protesters proposed less staffing than forecasted in the solicitation for some of the required services without adequate explanations of the methodology used to develop the proposed lesser levels of staffing and/or accounting for the enhanced levels of services contemplated by the solicitation. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-286336/html/GAOREPORTS-B-286336.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-286336/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-286336.pdf GAO/B-286336 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-286336 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-286336; Hernandez Engineering, Inc.; ASR International Corporation, B-286336; B-286336.2; B-286336.3; B-286336.4, January 2, 2001;