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B-408199 1 (2013-07-15)

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   SGAO

~Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


Matter of:

File:

Date:


Comptroller General
of the United States


   DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
 The decision issued on the date below was subject to
 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
Sbeen approved forpublic release.


International Composites Technologies, Inc.

B-408199

July 15, 2013


Scott M. Heimberg, Esq., Thomas P. McLish, Esq., and Troy D. Cahill, Esq., Akin
Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, for the protester.
Maj. Frank Yoon, Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging contracting agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and its
exclusion from the competitive range is denied where the record shows that the
evaluation of the proposal as technically unacceptable was reasonable and
consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION

International Composites Technologies, Inc. (ICT), of Compton, California, protests
the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals
(RFP) No. FA8504-12-R-30298, issued by the Department of the Air Force for
ballistic armor systems to be installed on various configurations of the C-1 30
aircraft. ICT argues that the agency improperly found its proposal technically
unacceptable.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The solicitation, issued as a small business set-aside, contemplates the award of a
fixed-price contract to the offeror submitting the low priced, technically acceptable

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