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 2007-09-14 monographic deposited born digital 8 p. GA 1.13:B-299904 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-299904 P0b002ee18fd4d0ca f:299904 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-299904 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-299904 B-299904 Comptroller General Decision 1. Where solicitation allowed for consideration of past performance of services the same or similar to those being procured, agency reasonably gave approximately equal evaluation credit to protester for its incumbent performance as subcontractor and to non-incumbent awardee based on contracts of similar size with procuring agency and other federal agencies, and proposal of key personnel with relevant technical expertise and knowledge.<p/> 2. In unrestricted competition under Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), vendor considered to be small disadvantaged business (SDB) at time of its FSS contract award did not misrepresent itself as SDB--even though it had since exited from SDB program and had an application pending for recertification--where solicitation only contemplated consideration of SDB status at the time of award of its FSS contract.<p/> 3. Price evaluation was unobjectionable where agency did not consider protester's proposal of additional, but undefined, discounts that were not in accordance with solicitation pricing requirements.<p/> 4. Where underlying evaluation record confirms agency's finding of no significant difference in technical quality between protester's and awardee's equally-rated quotations, source selection authority reasonably concluded that awardee's lower-priced quotation represented "best value" to the government. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-299904/html/GAOREPORTS-B-299904.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-299904/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-299904.pdf GAO/B-299904 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-299904 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-299904; B-299904, Synergetics, Inc., September 14, 2007;