Agency Unreasonably Compared Awardee’s Past Performance Efforts to Contract’s Base Period Only, When Option Years Were Significantly Higher Priced; GAO B-412628.6, XPO Logistics Worldwide Government Services LLC

Protest that awardee’s pricing is unbalanced under a solicitation for the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is dismissed as untimely where the protest concerns the solicitation’s estimates and price evaluation methodology but the protester failed to challenge these terms before the solicitation’s closing date; and protest challenging agency’s past performance evaluation is sustained, where the agency unreasonably concluded that some of the awardee’s past efforts were somewhat relevant to the requirement, because it compared the efforts only to the contract’s base period, not to the much higher valued option years and where the record contained no evidence showing how the awardee’s comparatively low-value past efforts reasonably could have been assessed as somewhat relevant.