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B-271578 1 (1996-07-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeez0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Metric Systems Corporation File: B-271578 Date: July 9, 1996 E. Bruce White Wolf for the protester. Marian E. Sullivan, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Sylvia Schatz, Esq., David Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Solicitation did not improperly disclose protester's design information where information was contained in a brochure the protester previously had provided to the agency without restrictions on its use or disclosure, or any indication that the protester considered the information confidential or proprietary; restriction on the use of ideas in unsolicited proposal does not apply where information was furnished to agency in advertising material, not an unsolicited proposal. DECISION Metric Systems Corporation protests the specifications in invitation for bids (IFB) No. F32605-96-B-0015, issued by the Department of the Air Force, Grand Forks Air Force Base (AFB), for containers to store and transport Metric's KC-135 aircraft cargo roller handling system. Metric contends that the specifications in the IFB are based on proprietary data furnished by Metric to the agency in an unsolicited proposal. We deny the protest. In May 1995, Grand Forks AFB received from Scott AFB, Illinois, a pricing sheet and brochure--that had originally been furnished by Metric to the Air National Guard detachment at Salt Lake City, Utah--describing Metric's AMC-135 container. The brochure and pricing sheet were not marked as containing proprietary data. Subsequently, the contracting office at Grand Forks AFB requested from Metric pricing information on the containers. Metric responded by sending the agency (by facsimile transmission) the same pricing sheet that had been included with the original brochure. Again, the pricing sheet did not contain a legend indicating that the container design information was proprietary to Metric. 51679

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