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 2001-06-05 monographic deposited born digital 15 p. GA 1.13:B-287325 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-287325 P0b002ee18fd4921c f:287325 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-287325 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-287325 B-287325 Comptroller General Decision 1. General Accounting Office's granting of an extension of the due date for the protester's comments on the agency report does not waive the timeliness requirements for filing a supplemental protest, and thus new and independent protest issues, first raised in comments submitted more than 10 days after receipt of the agency report on which the issues were based, are dismissed as untimely.<p/>2. Agency reasonably evaluated the comparative degree of relevance of the past contract experience of offerors under the experience factor, and not under the past performance factor, consistent with the solicitation's evaluation scheme.<p/>3. Agency's determination that the corporate experience of the awardee was equivalent to that of the incumbent is reasonable where the awardee performed contract work very similar to the work required under the solicitation and where the awardee's proposed key management personnel possessed significant experience.<p/>4. Agency was not required by the solicitation to contact sources of information relating to an offeror's past performance, but has the discretion to consider only the references listed in the proposal.<p/>5. Agency may have a reasonable basis to consider one proposal superior to another under an evaluation factor, even though both proposals are awarded the same rating for the factor.<p/>6. Agency's evaluation of an oral presentation in response to a solicitation for an international undersea search, salvage and rescue operations contract did not use an unstated evaluation factor in considering whether offerors discussed alternative ports of mobilization where this element is intrinsic to one of the matters that was to be addressed in the oral presentation--mobilization.<p/>7. Agency's failure to obtain or consider supporting cost data for subcontractor costs in the cost evaluation is unobjectionable, where the solicitation stipulated for evaluation purposes an amount for the cost reimbursable subcontract costs, the solicitation only required the submission of such data "as appropriate," and neither the protester nor the awardee submitted this supporting cost data. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-287325/html/GAOREPORTS-B-287325.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-287325/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-287325.pdf GAO/B-287325 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-287325 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-287325; Oceaneering International, Inc., B-287325, June 5, 2001;