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B-281384 1 (1999-02-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajgn0001 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: Bulova Technologies LLC File: B-281384; B-281384.2 Date: February 3, 1999 Glenn A. Rowley, Esq., John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., and Donald E. Sovie, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for the protester. Larisa A. Trainor, Esq., Anne B. Perry, Esq., and Louis D. Victorino, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, an intervenor. Larry Brady, Esq., Gerald T. Williams, Esq., and Maj. Cynthia M. Mabry, U.S. Army Materiel Command, 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 1. Allegation that protester would have been able to eliminate certain deficiencies in the portion of its proposal related to a certain item, had the agency made predecessor contract information available, is untimely where first raised after closing time for receipt of proposals and protester knew that the item had been used under prior contract (and actually requested that the item be provided as government-furnished equipment), but neither requested information about the item, nor protested its omission from the solicitation prior to the closing time. 2. Protest that agency improperly considered offerors' experience in manufacturing specific item being acquired is denied where evaluation factors encompassed consideration of such experience. 3. Protest that evaluation improperly was based on unstated criteria--methodology to mitigate component obsolescence of a specific component--is denied where, contrary to protester's position, record indicates that evaluation was conducted on basis of general methodology to mitigate component obsolescence, as provided for in solicitation, and protester failed to present a plan in this area. 4. Protest that agency improperly evaluated protester's price assumption--that component parts will function properly when manufactured to technical data package and assembled--as inconsistent with solicitation is denied, where solicitation specifically provided that contractor was not to assume that all possible

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