Agency Reasonably Awards Task Order to Lower-Priced Offeror Despite Assigning Same Past Performance Rating to Awardee and Protestor; GAO B-413703.9, LOUI Consulting Group Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s past performance evaluation is denied, where the protester’s references were more relevant to the requirement, but the agency also considered recency and quality in assigning ratings and making the best value tradeoff decision.