B-280573.2: Dec 1, 1998

For past performance and reasonably made a price/past performance tradeoff resulting in the issuance of a purchase order to a higher-priced vendor with a higher past performance rating where the agency determined that it was worth paying a price premium to a firm with a superior past performance history and a minimal performance risk. Provided that the agency intended to issue a purchase order to...

B-280573.2: Dec 1, 1998

A firm protested a Navy purchase order for acrylic replacement windows, contending that the Navy improperly: (1) evaluated its past performance; and (2) issued the purchase order to a higher bidder. GAO held that the Navy reasonably: (1) assigned a high risk rating to the protester, the low bidder, for its past performance; and (2) reasonably determined that the price premium was justified by the...