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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: Interstate Electronics Corporation
File: B-286466; B-286466.2
Date: January 12, 2001
Jessica C. Abrahams, Esq., Carl A. Gebo, Esq., Curtis J. Romig, Esq., and William R.
Joiner, Esq., Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, for the protester.
Kerri A. Cox, Esq., Judith L. Richardson, Esq., and Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq.,
Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Where solicitation incorporated a Critical Requirements List (CRL) and expressly
advised offerors that the CRL reflected the agency's minimum requirements, and
agency further reminded protester during oral presentation and in subsequent
written evaluation notices that all CRL items must be met, protester's assertion that
the solicitation [did] not indicate in any way that the CRL will be considered in
source selection is without basis.
2. Agency reasonably rejected protester's proposal as not technically sound or
failing to meet the agency's needs where protester's proposal failed to provide
adequate assurance that the protester's contract performance would comply with
several aspects of the solicitation's minimum requirements.
3. Agency's discussions with protester were meaningful where written evaluation
notices advised protester of multiple portions of its proposal which failed to comply
with solicitation's minimum requirements.
DECISION
Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC) protests the Department of the Air Force's
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