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B-402256 1 (2010-02-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbfl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L G A O 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. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Dayton T. Brown, Inc. File: B-402256 Date: February 24, 2010 Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Fran Baskin, Esq., for the protester. Maj. Jonathan P. Widmann, Maj. Karen L. Douglas, Col. Thomas J. Hasty, III, and Steven R. Fuscher, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that a solicitation's planned evaluation of two potential task orders provides another firm with an unfair price advantage due to that firm's prior work developing protocols required to perform the task orders is denied where the record shows that the other firm lost any competitive advantage it had when the protocols were released to all prospective offerors, and where the record shows that the magnitude and type of effort required by the task orders is significantly greater than that performed previously performed by the other firm. 2. Protest that solicitation's evaluation factors are defective and impermissibly restrict competition because the solicitation sets forth a broad scope of work but the agency plans to evaluate proposals based only on the solicitation's task orders is denied where the record shows that the evaluation factors represent the key areas of importance to be considered during the evaluation, including both the task orders and the broader scope of work. DECISION Dayton T. Brown, Inc. (DTB), of Bohemia, Long Island, New York, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. FA7000-09-R-0059, issued by the Department of the Air Force, U.S. Air Force Academy, to obtain support for engineering tasks and research activities for aging structures initiated by the Academy's Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE) program. The protester essentially complains that another contractor would have an unfair competitive advantage under the RFP as drafted.

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