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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision
Matter of: Bostan Research, Inc.
File: B-274331
Date: December 3, 1996
Paralee White, Esq., Cohen and White, for the protester.
Jewel L. Miller, Esq., Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for the agency.
Marie Penny Ahearn, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency's decision not to fund protester's proposal under Small Business Innovation
Research Program procurement was proper where evaluation was consistent with
terms of solicitation and there is no showing of agency fraud or bad faith, or of
violations of regulations.
DECISION
Bostan Research, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal by the Department of
Defense (DOD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under DOD
Fiscal Year 1996 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program solicitation
No. SB962-080. Bostan alleges that DARPA improperly evaluated its proposal.
We deny the protest.
The solicitation sought phase I proposals on the topic, Micro Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) System Design and Operation. Offerors were to submit proposals
for exploratory development of a very small UAV system, with a maximum
dimension of 15 centimeters (6 inches) or less, for unique military applications. The
solicitation provided that offerors were to assess the UAV's operational utility and
further stated that [f]light vehicle concepts and designs should address critical
performance attributes such as range, speed, hover, agility, and covertness, but the
operation approach must address all relevant implementation issues.
The solicitation contained four evaluation criteria: (1) soundness and technical
merit of the proposed approach and its incremental progress toward topic solution,
(2) potential for commercial (government or private sector) application and the
benefits expected to accrue from commercialization; (3) adequacy of the proposed
effort for fulfillment of the research topic's requirements; and (4) qualification of
the principal/key investigators, staff and consultants, in terms of both their ability to
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