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B-418604,B-418604.2 1 (2020-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebjo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Avionic Instruments LLC File: B-418604; B-418604.2 Date: June 30, 2020 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Armani Vadiee, Esq., and Zachary D. Prince, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. John R. Prairie, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and Nicole E. Giles, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Physical Optics Corporation, the intervenor. Eric Carlson, Esq., and Gina Gascoigne, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of technical proposals is sustained because the contemporaneous record does not show that the evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with procurement law and the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Avionic Instruments LLC, of Avenel, New Jersey, protests the award of a contract to Physical Optics Corporation (POC), of Torrance, California, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N0001 9-19-R-0030, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, to replace analog inverters on the Navy's UH-1 Y helicopter fleet with digital signal processor (DSP) inverters. The protester challenges as unreasonable the agency's evaluation of technical proposals. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND This procurement was for development and production of a replacement inverter for the UH-1Y helicopter. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, Source Selection Plan at 7. Inverters convert a helicopter's direct current (DC) into an alternating current (AC) usable for other electronic needs. The agency intends to replace all existing UH-1Y analog power inverters, which have a history of low reliability rates, with a digital design that offers the potential for improved reliability. AR, Tab 7, Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB)

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