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B-405129.3 1 (2012-01-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadonn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT-FoR-PUBLIC-RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Alliant Techsystems, Inc. File: B-405129.3 Date: January 23, 2012 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., John S. Pachter, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., Cameron S. Hamrick, Esq., David F. Dowd, Esq., Phillip R. Dupr6, Esq., and Polly A. Myers, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, for BAE Systems Ordnance Systems Inc., the intervenor. Tina Pixler, Esq., Timothy Reier, Esq., and Sharon Lipes, Esq., Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest arguing that agency has improperly precluded price revisions is denied where the underlying basis for the allegation--the protester's interpretation of the solicitation's amendments issued in connection with corrective action--is unreasonable. 2. Additional round of discussions, conducted as part of agency corrective action, that did not raise weaknesses identified during the protester's post-award debriefing, is unobjectionable where those weaknesses had been raised during prior rounds of discussions. DECISION Alliant Techsystems, Inc., of Radford, Virginia, protests the corrective action taken by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), in response to a protest by Alliant against the award of a contract to BAE Systems Ordnance Systems Inc., of Kingsport, Tennessee, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W52P1 J-09-R-001 5, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the operation of the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. The protester argues that solicitation amendments, issued as part of agency's implementation of corrective action, improperly prevent Alliant from revising its price proposal in response to permitted changes to its technical proposal. Alliant also argues that the

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