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B-405318 1 (2011-10-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadohb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .L G A 0 Comptroller General .,uin Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: GEA Engineering, P.C. File: B-405318 Date: October 13, 2011 Steven M. Gamelsky, and Kinza Elahi, GEA Engineering, P.C., for the protester. Debra J. Talley, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly found protester's proposal non-compliant where the proposal exceeded the page limitation set forth in the solicitation. DECISION GEA Engineering, P.C., of Nanuet, New York, protests the rejection of its proposal submitted in response to solicitation No. FYI 1.2, issued by the Department of the Army under the Department of Defense (DOD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for a water conditioning system. GEA asserts that the agency improperly rejected its proposal for exceeding the 20-page limitation imposed by the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The SBIR program is conducted pursuant to the Small Business Innovation Development Act, 15 U.S.C. § 638 (2006), which requires certain federal agencies to reserve a portion of their research and development funds for awards to small businesses. As part of its SBIR program, DOD periodically issues SBIR solicitations listing the research topics for which it will consider SBIR program admission. The solicitation at issue was published in April 2011 and sought Phase I proposals for various topics, including topic No. Al 1-112, entitled Water Conditioning System for

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