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B-293299.3,B-293299.4 1 (2004-08-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyuc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller General ....Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Manufacturing Engineering Systems, Inc. File: B-293299.3; B-293299.4 Date: August 3, 2004 William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., Benjamin A. Winter, Esq., and Julia M. Kiraly, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Tenley A. Carp, Esq., and Nicole C. Farrar, Esq., McGuire Woods, for Spiral Aviation Training Company, the intervenor. Sharon H. Sachs, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated technical proposals for flight simulators and instructor training is denied, where evaluation reflected the reasoned judgment of the source selection authority, based on a detailed comparative assessment of strengths and weaknesses in the proposals in accordance with the stated evaluation criteria. DECISION Manufacturing Engineering Systems, Inc. (MES) protests the Department of the Navy's award of a contract to Spiral Aviation Training Company (SATCO), under request for proposals (RFP) No. N61399-03-R-0084, for two flight training devices (FTD) and instructor training for TC-12B aircraft. MES challenges the reasonableness of the agency's technical evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP provided for award of a fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract--with a base period of 3 years, 8.5 months, and a 1-year option period followed by a 3.5-month option period--to support the TC-12B command aircraft crew training program by furnishing certified flight instructors, two TC-12B FTDs, support personnel to operate and maintain the FTDs, and any additional labor required to supervise and administer classroom and simulator training. (The

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