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B-279811 1 (1998-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahtt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Applied Companies File: B-279811 Date: July 24, 1998 Brian J. Donovan, Esq., Peter B. Jones, Esq., and Toni L. DeGasperin, Esq., Jones & Donovan, for the protester. Jeffrey I. Kessler, Esq., and John J. Reynolds, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Susan K McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency properly excluded protester's two proposals from the competitive range where protester's responses to discussion questions (especially regarding ability to comply with system capacity requirements, which was identified as a proposal deficiency) lacked sufficient detail to satisfy agency's concerns about feasibility of approach and protester's understanding of requirements, and where record shows that, as a result, protester's proposals no longer had a reasonable chance for award. 2. Contracting agencies are not obligated to afford all-encompassing discussions that spoon-feed an offeror each item that must be addressed to improve a proposal; agencies are only required to lead offerors into the areas of their pro po sals considered deficient and requiring amplification. DECISION Applied Companies protests the exclusion of its two proposals from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAB07-97-R-E341, issued by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM). Applied challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposals and contends that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions with the firm. We deny the protest. The RFP, as amended, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for 42 split-pack air conditioners (referred to as Environmental Control Units (ECU)), capable of producing a normal cooling capacity of 24,000 (24K) British Thermal Units per Hour (BTUH) and a normal heating capacity of 30,000 BTUH; these ECUs

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