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B-291823.4,B-291823.5 1 (2003-05-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyhv0001 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: InkiTiki Corporation File: B-291823.4; B-291823.5 Date: May 16, 2003 Dr. Susanna Tsai for the protester. Brian Kau, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's decision not to invite the protester to submit a Phase II proposal under the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research program is denied where the agency reasonably determined, based on the lack of details in the protester's Phase I written products and post-award conference, that it could not be determined whether the protester's approach was innovative or feasible. DECISION InkiTiki Corporation protests the Department of the Navy's determination not to invite it to submit a Phase II proposal under the Department of Defense's (DOD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We deny the protest. The SBIR program is conducted pursuant to the Small Business Innovation Development Act, 15 U.S.C. § 638 (2000), which requires certain federal agencies to reserve a portion of their research and development (R&D) funds for awards to small businesses. It is a three-phased process of soliciting proposals and awarding funding for R&D to small businesses for stated agency needs. Phase I is to determine, insofar as possible, the scientific, technical, and commercial merit and feasibility of ideas submitted under the SBIR program. Phase II is the principal R&D effort demonstrating the Phase I technology, including the delivery of a prototype. Phase III contemplates that non-SBIR funds will be used to develop the prototype into a viable product or non-R&D service for sale to the military or in commercial markets.

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