Protest challenging agency’s evaluation under solicitation’s experience and past performance factors is denied. GAO found that the protester’s arguments amounted to mere disagreement with the agency’s evaluation conclusions.
GSA issued an RFQ to holders of the facilities management FSS contract. The RFQ contemplated establishment of a blanket purchase agreement. GSA received quotations from several vendors, including EMCOR Government Services and South Dade Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (SDAC). GSA selected SADC. EMCOR protested.
EMCOR objected to the evaluation of SADC’s experience, arguing that the company’s contract references were not sufficiently similar in size, scope, and complexity. EMCOR claimed that one of SADC’s references was a smaller building than the one covered in the RFQ, and that the work SADC performed did not include all the tasks required by the RFQ. But GAO found that EMCOR had not shown that the evaluation contravened the experience factors. EMCOR’s arguments amounted to disagreement with the agency’s evaluation conclusions.
EMCOR also challenged GSA’s evaluation of SDAC’s past performance references. SADC submitted the same references for both experience and past performance. And EMCOR’s challenges to past performance were the same—size, scope, complexity—as its experience challenges. GSA had already found these challenges lacked merit with regard to the experience factor. They weren’t any more convincing when applied to past performance.
EMCO is represented by Kenneth B. Weckstein and Shlomo D. Katz of Brown Rudhnick LLP. The agency is represented by Roert Notigan and Alexis Webster of GSA. GAO attorneys Paula A. Williams and Edward Goldstein participated in the preparation of the decision.
