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B-298582.2,B-298582.3 1 (2007-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczst0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General c Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Aeronautical Instrument & Radio Company File: B-298582.2; B-298582.3 Date: January 10, 2007 George N. Grammas, Esq., Robert E. Gregg, Esq., Karen R. Harbaugh, Esq., and Steven D. Tibbetts, Esq., Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, for the protester. Lars E. Anderson, Esq., Peter A. Riesen, Esq., and Keir X. Bancroft, Esq., Venable LLP, for Tel Instrument Electronics Corporation, an intervenor. Timothy Lasko, Esq., Naval Air Systems Command, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly ignored solicitation preference for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products in evaluating its and awardee's proposals as comparable is denied where record supports agency's determination that proposals reflect a comparable use of COTS products. 2. Protest that agency's evaluation of awardee's proposal under management subfactor was unreasonably favorable because awardee allegedly did not propose program manager currently working for the firm is denied where record shows that awardee proposed one of its principal current employees as program manager. 3. Protest that agency improperly refused to allow protester to correct alleged mistake in its price is denied where alleged mistake related to use of one set of indirect rates versus another, and protester provided no documentation to support its claimed mistake. DECISION Aeronautical Instrument & Radio Company (AIRCO) protests the award of a contract to Tel Instrument Electronics Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. N68335-05-R-0128, issued by the Department of the Navy to acquire a quantity of aircraft navigation test sets. AIRCO maintains that the agency misevaluated proposals, improperly relaxed a solicitation requirement for the awardee, and improperly failed to allow it to correct a mistake in its price proposal. We deny the protest.

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