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B-287841 1 (2001-08-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamqw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: LaBarge Products, Inc. File: B-287841; B-287841.2 Date: August 20, 2001 William H. Gammon, Esq., Moore & Van Allen, for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq., and Elizabeth Burt, Esq., U. S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of General Counsel, GAO, participated in preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably excluded from the competitive range as unacceptable proposal with significant informational deficiencies. DECISION LaBarge Products, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal as unacceptable under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAE07-00-R-T056, issued by the U. S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), U. S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, for acquisition of the Advanced Aviation Forward Area Refueling System (AAFARS). We deny the protest. The RFP provided for award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to continue production of the current AAFARS system, based on a revised performance-based purchase description, and furnish up to 375 AAFARS systems (and associated logistics support and training) over a period of 8 years. The AAFARS refueling system consists of a pumping system, filtration system, nozzles, hoses, couplings and ground rods; the system draws fuel from four 500-gallon fuel drums and provides filtered fuel at a rate of 55 gallons per minute (gpm) simultaneously to four nozzles located 100 feet apart. The AAFARS is used to refuel up to four helicopters in tactical locations when the refueling site is inaccessible to ground vehicles or urgency requires rapid air deployment. Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal represented the best value to the government. The solicitation provided for proposals to be evaluated under three evaluation areas: (1) capability, including evaluation elements for ability to

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