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B-401697 1 (2009-10-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbag0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Oceantronics, Inc. File: B-401697 Date: October 23, 2009 Fritz Amtsberg for the protester. Stephen H.S. Tryon, Esq., Naval Sea Systems Command, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly evaluated protester's proposal, resulting in a flawed best value determination, is denied where the record shows both that the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's proposal as failing to meet key requirements of the solicitation and that the agency's best value determination was reasonable. DECISION Oceantronics, Inc. of Honolulu, Hawaii, protests the issuance of a task order to another contractor under a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by the Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, for engineering and technical services supporting a Mobil At-sea Sensor System, a seagoing platform outfitted with a variety of sensors and research and test equipment. Oceantronics challenges various aspects of the agency's evaluation of its proposal. We deny the protest. The solicitation called for selection of the proposal found most advantageous to the government, cost and other factors considered. The evaluation factors, in 'The task order here, No. N00178-04-D-4042 FD05, was issued on July 10, 2009, with a potential value of $11,166,398. Consequently, our Office has jurisdiction to hear the protest pursuant to section 843 of the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2008, Pub. L. No. 110-181, 122 Stat. 3, 237 (2008), which provides that a protest is authorized with regard to an order valued in excess of $10,000,000.

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