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B-277973 1 (1997-12-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagec0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Kahn Instruments, Inc. File: B-277973 Date: December 15, 1997 Mary Beth Bosco, Esq., and Lynn T. Burleson, Esq., Patton Boggs, for the protester. Russell P. Spindler, Esq., Naval Air Systems Command, for the agency. John Van Schaik, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly evaluated protester's alternate design proposal for digital hygrometers as technically unacceptable and impermissibly made award on the basis of initial proposals is denied, where record shows agency reasonably concluded that the proposal was unacceptable due to informational deficiencies, and award to remaining technically acceptable offeror without discussions was consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Kahn Instruments, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal and the award of a contract to Panametrics under request for proposals (RFP) No. N68936-97-R-0157, issued by the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division for 215 digital hygro meters. We deny the protest.1 BACKGROUND The hygrometers called for by the RFP are to be used to measure the water content of various gases that cool the Sidewinder AIM-9M missile. Although hygrometers are commercially available, due to the Navy's special requirements, commercial, off-the-shelf hygrometers were not considered to meet the agency's needs. The Navy developed a prototype hygrometer and drawings based on a commercially- 'We conducted a hearing on this protest to receive the testimony of the Navy's technical evaluator and a representative of Kahn.

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