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B-291818 1 (2003-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacygn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Kolaka No 'eau, Inc. File: B-291818 Date: April 2, 2003 Eugene L. Duke for the protester. Vincent A. Salgado, Esq., National Aeronautics & Space 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 Protest that an agency did not select protester's proposal for a phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract is denied, where the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's proposal and where, although the proposal was recommended for award, the proposal was reasonably not as highly ranked as other proposals for which the agency had sufficient funding to make awards. DECISION Kolaka No 'eau, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal by the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) under the agency's 2002 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program solicitation No. 2002-1. We deny the protest. The SBIR program is designed to increase the participation of small business concerns in federally funded research or research and development (R&D). See Small Business Innovation Research Program Act of 1982, 15 U.S.C. § 638 (2000). Pursuant to this authority, federal agencies (such as NASA) with R&D extramural budgets in excess of $100 million are required to provide a program under which a portion of the agency's research or R&D effort is reserved for award to small business concerns through a three-phased process. See 15 U.S.C. § 638 (e)(4), (f). Under phase I, small businesses are invited to submit proposals to conduct research on one or more topics specified in the annual SBIR program solicitation. Under phase II, firms that received phase I awards may, on their own initiative, submit

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