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B-400650,B-400650.2 1 (2009-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadarr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General .Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Spaltudaq Corp. File: B-400650; B-400650.2 Date: January 6, 2009 Jason A. Carey, Esq., John M. Clerici, Esq., and Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. Judith L. Richardson, Esq., and William H. Anderson, Esq., Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably discontinued negotiations under a Broad Agency Announcement is denied, where the agency reasonably determined, after four months of negotiations, that the parties could not reach agreement on contract terms concerning intellectual property rights. DECISION Spaltudaq Corp. protests the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) decision to terminate negotiations with the firm and to not award Spaltudaq a contract under Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) No. HDTRAl-CBMEDICAL-TMTI-BAA, for medical research and development program support. We deny the protest. DTRA's Chemical Biological Technologies Directorate manages and integrates the development, demonstration, and transition of chemical and biological defense solutions for the Department of Defense. The Directorate includes a Medical Science and Technology Division, which issued the BAA here.' The BAA sought 'A BAA is a contracting method by which agencies can acquire basic and applied research to fulfill requirements for scientific study and experimentation directed towards advancing the state of the art or increasing knowledge and understanding, rather than focusing on a specific system or hardware solution.

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