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B-283817.3 1 (2000-12-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakyk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 . G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Imaging Systems Technology File: B-283817.3 Date: December 19, 2000 Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq., and Hal J. Perloff, Esq., Wickwire Gavin, for the protester. Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq., John D. Inazu, Esq., and John C. Gatlin, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Daniel I. Gordon, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Cancellation of solicitation based on a determination that in-house performance would cost the government less than contractor performance was improper where comparison of in-house and contractor performance was neither realistic nor fair. DECISION Imaging Systems Technology (IST) protests the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. F04606-99-R-90052, issued by the Department of the Air Force for logistics support for the Programmable Indicator Data Processor (PIDP) air traffic control and landing system. The agency cancelled the solicitation based on a determination that performing the work in-house would result in cost savings. IST, the incumbent contractor, contends that the cancellation lacked a reasonable basis because the agency failed to conduct a realistic or fair comparison of the cost of in-house and contractor performance. We sustain the protest. The RFP, a total set-aside for small businesses, sought proposals to furnish all necessary resources required to provide logistics support for the PIDP system and peripheral equipment. The PIDP system is a standardized automated radar display, tracking, and flight data processing system used in the provision of air traffic control services at locations identified in the RFP, including dozens in the continental United States together with others as distant as Japan and Germany.

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