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B-416890 1 (2018-10-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvdj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Celeris Systems, Inc File: B-416890 Date: October 11, 2018 Bryan B. Arnold, Esq., Gordee, Nowicki & Blakeney, LLP, for the protester. Richard B. Oliver, Esq., and J. Matthew Carter, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for INDUS Technology, Inc., the intervenor. Robert Jusko, Esq., Trenton J. Bowen, Esq., and James C. Brent, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that military agency misevaluated proposals is dismissed as premature where required post-award debriefing consistent with extended debriefing procedures of 10 U.S.C. § 2305(b)(5)(B)(vii)-(b)(5)(C) had commenced, but agency had not responded to protester's questions, so debriefing had not concluded when protest was filed. DECISION Celeris Systems, Inc., of Anaheim, California, a small business, protests the issuance of a task order to INDUS Technology, Inc., of San Diego, California, also a small business, under SeaPort-e request for proposals (RFP) No. N0025317R3012, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Keyport, for engineering, technical, infrastructure, logistic, business, and underwater vehicle operational site support services for the Navy's Pacific Fleet Test and Operational Assessment Division, NUWC Detachment Pacific, Pearl Harbor Torpedo Division, and Fleet Technical Support Division, primarily in Hawaii and Guam, as well as Japan and other locations. Celeris, the incumbent contractor, argues that the Navy misevaluated its task order proposal. We dismiss the protest. Our Bid Protest Regulations provide that we will not consider a protest challenging a procurement conducted on the basis of competitive proposals, where a debriefing is required if the protest is filed before the debriefing date offered to the protester; the

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