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B-285386 1 (2000-08-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Northrop Grumman Corporation File: B-285386 Date: August 1, 2000 Richard P. Rector, Esq., Sheila C. Stark, Esq., William J. Crowley, Esq., and Karen E. Gray, Esq., Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., and Michael J. Farley, Esq., Miller & Chevalier, for Lockheed Martin Corporation Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems--Syracuse, an intervenor. John E. Lariccia, Esq., Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq., M. Steele Kenyon, Esq., and Roger J. McAvoy, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Solicitation requirement that an offeror's mobile radar air traffic control units interface with a particular, previously procured data automation system, which will be provided to the awardee as government-furnished equipment, does not overstate the agency's needs or unduly restrict competition where this automation system is necessary for achieving interoperability and commonality in the civil and military air traffic control environments. DECISION Northrop Grumman Corporation (NG) protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. F19628-00-R-0014, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the acquisition of 18 rapidly deployable and highly mobile radar air traffic control systems, known as the Mobile Approach Control Systems (MACS). NG complains that the RFP requirement that MACS interface with a government-furnished data automation system, known as the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS), which was previously procured from Raytheon Corporation under a contract awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1996, overstates the agency's needs, thereby unduly restricting competition and precluding NG from submitting a competitive proposal.

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