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B-279622 1 (1998-07-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahtc0001 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-279622 Date: July 2, 1998 E. Bruce White Wolf, Esq., for the protester. Joyce U. Ballack, Esq., for Harris Corporation, Government Communications Systems Division, an intervenor. Todd E. Norton, Esq., Lawrence J. Feldhaus, Jerry W. Aldridge, and John E. Lariccia, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Although the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 generally mandates that contracting agencies obtain full and open competition in their procurements through the use of competitive procedures, the proposed sole-source award of a contract under 10 U.S.C. § 2304(c)(1) (1994) is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that only one source could complete the modification of an electronic warfare system to simulate advanced threats within the urgent time constraints of the procurement. DECISION Metric Systems Corporation protests the Department of the Air Force's decision to award a sole-source contract to Harris Corporation, Government Communications Systems Division, to provide total system performance responsibility for the Miniature-Multiple Threat Emitter System (Mini-MUTES) Modification Program. Metric argues that the Air Force unreasonably determined that Harris is the only source capable of meeting the agency's needs within the required time constraints. We deny the protest. The Mini-MUTES system is a surface-to-air-missile threat radar simulator presently in place on Combat Air Forces training ranges. Each system typically consists of one Master Control Group (MCG) and up to five Remote Emitter Units (REU). The REUs emit electronic signals that simulate different threat signal combinations to train pilots that might face the actual threats during combat, and the MCG directs and coordinates all REU activity occurring on the training ranges.

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