![]() The RFP required delivery of two types of HESCO brand name or equal earth-filled barriers-CART and RAID, as marketed by HESCO. Offerors were required to provide the following documentation to demonstrate past performance manufacturing earth-filled barriers that have been delivered within the past 5 years: company name, contract number, total dollar value, contract award date, title of contract, description of project, and period of performance. The RFP advised offerors that past performance would be evaluated in accordance with FAR provision 52.212-1, Instruction to Offerors-Commercial Items, which provides that, where a solicitation contains past performance as an evaluation criterion, offers “must show” past performance information that “include recent and relevant contracts for the same or similar items,” as well as relevant information about the contract references. Offerors were required to include the following documentation of experience in their proposals: the title of the government project or contract, a brief description of the work completed, the client’s name, the period of contract performance, and the value of the contract. With respect to the prior experience subfactor, the RFP required offerors to demonstrate at least 2 years of experience, within the last 5 years, manufacturing earth-filled barriers for the government. All of the technical subfactors and past performance were evaluated as acceptable or unacceptable. ![]() The technical capability factor contained five subfactors: training, prior experience, evidence of laboratory environmental and performance testing, documentation of testing, and an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification for quality management systems (ISO 9001:2008). Agency Report (AR), Tab 4, RFP, at 5, 7-8. The RFP, issued under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, and part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, sought the issuance of a purchase order for HESCO brand name or equal earth-filled barriers to the responsible offeror submitting the lowest-priced proposal that satisfied all of the terms and conditions of the solicitation, considering the following evaluation factors: technical capability, price, and past performance. HESCO Bastion Ltd., of Leeds, United Kingdom, requests that we recommend it be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protest of the issuance of a purchase order to JSF Systems, LLC (JSF), of Washington, DC, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91QVN-17-R-0204, issued by the Department of the Army for earth-filled barriers. ![]()
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