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B-285979.2 1 (2000-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalew0001 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: R&D Dynamics Corporation File: B-285979.2 Date: November 14, 2000 William T. Welch, Esq., Maurice J. Mountain, Esq., and Keith L. Baker, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon & Tolle, for the protester. Maj. Cynthia M. Mabry, and Alvin E. Prather, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 Protest that government personnel discouraged protester from pursuing the Fast Track process under the Department of Defense's Small Business Innovation Research program, and had an improper conflict of interest with the awardee, is denied where the allegations are not supported by the record. DECISION R&D Dynamics Corporation protests the Department of the Army's determination to award Phase II funding to Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc. (MITI) for a project both firms proposed under the Department of Defense (DOD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. R&D alleges that government personnel improperly advised the firm that it need not pursue Fast Track procedures in order to obtain phase II funding for the Oil-Free Auxiliary Power Unit and Propulsion System Technology project, and that these government personnel had an improper conflict of interest with MITI and should not have participated in the evaluation 1 process. We deny the protest. 1R&D has filed an additional protest in response to the agency report which will be decided by a separate decision.

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