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B-405864 1 (2012-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadomv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General LAccountability * 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: R2Sonic, LLC File: B-405864 Date: January 6, 2012 John A. Ordway, Esq., and Ayanna Wooten-Days, Esq., Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, for the protester. Francis X. Eugenio, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging solicitation requirement for topside processor in acoustic hydrographic multibeam system as restrictive of competition is denied where agency demonstrates a reasonable basis for the requirement. DECISION R2Sonic, LLC, of Santa Barbara, California, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. W912DW-11-Q-0194, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District for acoustic hydrographic multibeams. Specifically, the protester objects to language in the solicitation requiring that the multibeams' processors be located at the vessel's topside. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In general terms, acoustic hydrographic multibeam systems consist of sonar heads (mounted on the hull of a boat or a pole) that contain projectors (which transmit acoustical pulses) and receivers (which receive the echoes and convert them into electrical signals); the systems also include processing units that convert the data received to a useable bathymetric product, and survey computers that store and display the data. In some manufacturers' systems, the processing units are located topside (that is, inside the hull of the boat, above the waterline), whereas in the protester's system, the processing modules are embedded in the sonar heads. One of the consequences of embedding the processing modules in hull-mounted sonar

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