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B-291071 1 (2002-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaohv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Dynamic Instruments, Inc. File: B-291071 Date: October 10, 2002 Paul F. Whitten, Sr., for the protester. B. J. Braun, Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that request for proposals that gives offerors the option of upgrading existing equipment or furnishing new equipment fails to provide for full and open competition is denied since, even though only manufacturer of existing equipment has sufficient information regarding its characteristics to furnish the upgrade, offerors that cannot offer upgraded equipment are not precluded from competing because they have the alternative of offering new equipment. DECISION Dynamic Instruments, Inc. protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. DTCG38-02-R-J00007, issued by the United States Coast Guard for multi-aircraft tracking, balancing, and vibration analyzer systems. The protester contends that because the RFP gives offerors the option of upgrading existing systems or furnishing new ones, but does not furnish sufficient information regarding the existing systems to permit their upgrade by other than the original manufacturer, the solicitation does not provide for full and open competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 4, 2002, approximately 2 months prior to issuing the solicitation at issue here, the Coast Guard published in FedBizOpps solicitation No. DTCG38-02-Q- S00058, a combined solicitation/synopsis for upgrade of the agency's existing vibration analyzer systems. The notice advised that the Coast Guard intended to negotiate with the original equipment manufacturer, Helitune International, for the

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