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B-281645 1 (1999-02-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajhp0001 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 GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Stratus Systems, Inc. File: B-281645 Date: February 24, 1999 Steven A. Beenel for the protester. Lawrence E. Kinker for Survival Systems Group USA, an intervenor. Richard V. Gonzales, Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Contracting agency properly did not give evaluation credit for undated and general past performance information contained in protester's technical approach, where request for proposals (RFP) stated that past performance would be separately evaluated using detailed past performance criteria for the past 24-month period. 2. Contracting agency's written discussion questions reasonably apprised protester of the areas of its proposal that the agency considered deficient, such that the protester should have known and understood the agency's concerns. DECISION Stratus Systems, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Survival Systems Group USA under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTCG38-98-R-J00002, issued by the United States Coast Guard for 42 emergency egress lighting systems for the HH60J helicopter.1 Stratus principally argues that the agency misevaluated technical and price proposals. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued March 5, 1998, contemplated the award of a fixed-price commercial item supply contract to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the 1An emergency egress lighting system, in simple terms, is a system of lights which mark doors and window openings through which the crew could exit the helicopter in an emergency situation.

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