Neutral Past Performance Rating Insufficient Basis to Exclude Proposal from Competitive Range; GAO B-413711, Xtreme Concepts Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s decision to eliminate the protester’s proposal from the competitive range is sustained, where the agency’s conclusion that the protester’s proposal was not among the most highly-rated and its decision to exclude the proposal from further consideration, was based solely on the protester’s neutral past performance rating, which is not allowed by the FAR.