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oComptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
A protected decision was issued on the date below
and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This
version has been redacted or approved by the parties
involved for public release.
Matter of: AVIATE L.L.C.
File: B-275058.6; B-275058.7
Date: April 14, 1997
Paralee White, Esq., and Joseph A. Zillo, Esq., Cohen & White, for the protester.
James H. Roberts III, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, for the intervenor.
Vincent A. Salgado, Esq., and Kevin E. Love, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, for the agency.
Denise Benjamin Biddy, Esq., and David R. Kohler, Esq., Small Business
Administration, for the agency.
Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. A procuring agency may properly include an allegedly unacceptable proposal in
the competitive range, where the agency reasonably concludes that the proposal is
susceptible of being made acceptable and has a reasonable chance of being selected
for award.
2. In a negotiated procurement for a task order contract, the procuring agency
reasonably determined that the awardee's proposed small disadvantaged business
concern (SDB) participation plan satisfied the solicitation's 40-percent SDB
participation goal, where the awardee proposed to subcontract 20 percent of the
contract value to an SDB subcontractor and to subcontract another 20 percent to
other to-be-determined SDB concerns from a list of candidate firms identified in the
awardee's proposal or to award the additional 20 percent of the contract work to
the named SDB subcontractor.
3. Protest that the procuring agency failed to account in its evaluation for
20 percent of the contract work that the awardee intended to award to unidentified
subcontractors is denied, where the awardee's proposal accounted for performance
of all the contract work to be ordered and the solicitation did not require
subcontractor commitments.
4. A protester's mere disagreement with the agency's assessment of weaknesses in
its proposal regarding its [REDACTED] and its fragmented administrative and
management structure does not show the agency's evaluationjudgment was unreasonable.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptafsz0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)