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B-290916 1 (2002-10-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacybc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General A- Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: InterOcean Systems, Inc. File: B-290916 Date: October 8, 2002 Michael Pearlman, InterOcean Systems, Inc., for the protester. Terry Hart Lee, Esq., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency evaluation of protester's product design under negotiated commercial item acquisition is unobjectionable where record establishes that the evaluation was reasonably based on assessment of how well the proposed product met the agency's stated requirements. DECISION InterOcean Systems, Inc. protests the award of a contract for certain oceanographic monitoring stations (OMS) to Sound Ocean Systems, Inc. (SOSI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. AB1330-02-RP-0073, issued by the United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). InterOcean contends that its proposal was misevaluated and that under a proper evaluation, InterOcean rather than SOSI would have been in line for award of the contract. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on May 31, 2002, as a negotiated commercial item acquisition under Part 12 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), with an amended June 7 closing time, sought proposals for four different types of oceanographic instruments to provide support for the Coral Reef Ecosystem Investigation program run by the Honolulu laboratory of NOAA's Marine Fisheries Service. The solicitation contemplated the award of individual indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for each type of instrument under separate contract line items (CLIN), with

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