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B-270755 1 (1996-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeav0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ' ITW' 1018523 Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: Loral Systems Company File: B-270755 Date: April 17, 1996 James J. McCullough, Esq., Lawrence E. Ruggiero, Esq., and C. Anthony Trambley, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for the protester. John M. Kinsey, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. John Van Schaik, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly evaluated protester's proposal is denied where review of the agency's evaluation documentation shows that the ratings assigned to the proposal were reasonable and related to the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria. 2. Agency reasonably excluded protester's proposal from the competitive range where proposals in the competitive range were rated superior to protester's and protester's proposed cost was substantially higher than that of the competitive range proposals. DECISION Loral Systems Company protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTCG23-94-R-AVT001, issued by the Coast Guard for the design, installation, and maintenance of VTS (vessel traffic system) 2000, a vessel management and navigation safety system. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND VTS 2000 is to be an open system with sensors, communications links, and decision support tools that will allow the Coast Guard to monitor vessel traffic and disseminate information. The project will consist of two phases. Phase I, which may involve multiple fixed-priced contracts, will be a design effort. At the conclusion of phase I, a single system integration contractor will be selected for

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