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B-261883 1 (1995-11-01)

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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548

Decision


Matter of: P.G. Electronics, Ltd.

File:        B-261883

Date:        November 1, 1995

Gerry Graham for the protester.
Maureen Cummings-Spickler, Esq., Federal Aviation Administration, for the agency.
Robert Arsenoff, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest that agency should have used price evaluation formulas other than those
set forth in the solicitation is without merit; evaluation must be based on scheme in
solicitation.

2. Agency's decision to permit a second operational capability demonstration on
awardee's proposed equipment is unobjectionable where it was not prohibited by
the solicitation and resulted in increased competition.

3. Protest that awardee's proposed equipment should have been rejected because it
was not commercial-off-the-shelf' (COTS) equipment is denied where both the
protester and the awardee offered tailored COTS equipment and the non-mandatory
COTS requirement was not strictly applied to either offer.
DECISION

P.G. Electronics, Ltd. protests the award of a contract to Mu-Del Electronics, Inc.
under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTFAO1-92-R-06593A, issued by the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) for multicoupler devices which receive and distribute
radio signals from a single antenna to no fewer than four receivers without a
significant loss of either signal level or signal intelligence. P.G. objects to the
evaluation of proposals.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, issued on September 1, 1994, contemplated the award of a 5-year fixed-
price requirements contract for base requirements set forth in section B. 1 of the
schedule of items including multicoupler hardware and related support services, and
optional requirements set forth in section B.2 of the schedule including routine


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