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B-406771 1 (2012-08-17)

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  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 version has been
                                                      approved for public release.
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           Matter of:   Millennium Space Systems, Inc.

           File:        B-406771

           Date:        August 17, 2012

           James F. Nagle, Esq., Jonathan A. DeMella, Esq., and Meredith L. Thielbahr, Esq.,
           Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker LLP, for the protester.
           Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., Benjamin J. Kohr, Esq., Jon W. Burd, Esq., and Nicole J.
           Owren-Wiest, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the intervenor.
           Maj. Troy D. Hammon, Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
           Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           1. A debriefing provided in a procurement conducted as a Broad Agency
           Announcement pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 6.102(d)(2) and
           FAR § 35.016 does not fall within the exception to our general timeliness rules at
           4 C.F.R. § 21.2(a)(2) (2012), because such a procurement is not a procurement
           conducted on the basis of competitive proposals, under which a debriefing is
           requested and, when requested, is required.

           2. Protest that agency applied unstated criteria in its evaluation of protester's
           proposal is denied where the record reflects that the agency's evaluation was
           consistent with terms of solicitation.
           DECISION

           Millennium Space Systems, Inc., of Torrance, California, protests the award of a
           contract to Orbital Sciences Corp., of Dulles, Virginia, by the Department of the Air
           Force under Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) No. BAA-RV-1 2-4, seeking
           proposals to advance the state-of-the-art and scientific knowledge in space
           technology, with the primary objective of developing and delivering an ESPA
           Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Experiment (EAGLE) Platform spacecraft
           bus. Agency Report at 1.


We dismiss the protest in part and deny it in part.

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