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B-271288.2 1 (1996-10-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeds0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Custom Data Services File: B-271288.2 Date: October 9, 1996 Frank Casey for the protester. Rose Trafton, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's decision to bundle agency's requirements into one procurement rather than issuing multiple solicitations is dismissed as untimely where agency's bundling approach was apparent from the face of the request for proposals, but protest was not filed prior to the closing time for receipt of proposals. 2. Agency properly excluded protester's technically unacceptable proposal from the competitive range since it had no chance of being selected for award despite its low price. 3. Protest challenging technical evaluation of proposal is dismissed as untimely where not filed within 14 days after protester was informed of deficiencies in its proposal. 4. Where agency holds discussions with competitive range offerors and requests best and final offers (BAFO), offerors properly may revise their proposals in their BAFOs. 5. Protester is not an interested party to challenge acceptability of awardee's proposal where it would not be in line for award even if the proposal were rejected. DECISION Custom Data Services (CDS) protests the award of contracts to SSAI and Eagle Systems under request for proposals (RFP) No. 68335-95-R-0063, issued by the Department of the Navy for engineering and technical services. The protester complains that the agency improperly bundled the solicitation's requirements, and objects to the technical evaluation of its proposal and its premature elimination from the competitive range. 1035109

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