A firm protested a Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract award for foreign language instruction, contending that USDA: (1) failed to consider its past performance records as the incumbent; (2) improperly downgraded its proposal; (3) improperly requested that former contract administrators rate bidders' past performances; and (4) improperly assigned equal ratings to all of the references survey...

Agency's technical evaluation of protester's prior performance was unreasonable where agency ignored the protester's listed prior performance. Protester's proposal was unreasonably downgraded for technical merit based on the results of a survey of references for prior contract performance. Where technical evaluators noted on the scoring sheets that certain questions were "not applicable" and recor...