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B-292755,B-292755.2 1 (2003-12-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacync0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller General ....Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: American Systems Corporation File: B-292755; B-292755.2 Date: December 3, 2003 Joseph G. Billings, Esq., for the protester. K. Lisa Daniel, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably rated proposal as marginal/high risk for technical factor under solicitation requesting proposals for training systems devices and curricula, where the proposal failed to provide sufficient details of its written instructional system development processes and failed to provide sufficient details in its sample task response. 2. Discussions were not misleading, even though, on the basis of an incorrect assumption, protester misinterpreted a particular discussion question, where a reasonably diligent offeror would have correctly understood, or requested clarification of, the agency discussion question. 3. Agency reasonably made one of the awards under solicitation contemplating multiple awards of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to an offeror whose marginal proposal contained one significant weakness, but not to an offeror whose marginal proposal contained two significant weaknesses under the same technical subfactor (with other aspects of the evaluation being relatively equal), where the agency reasonably determined this was a discriminator between the technical merits of the two proposals that justified award to one and not the other. DECISION American Systems Corporation (ASC) protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. N61339-02-R-0063, issued by the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, for training systems devices and curricula. We deny the protest.

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