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B-292819.2 1 (2004-04-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapid0001 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: Firearms Training Systems, Inc. File: B-292819.2; B-292819.3; B-292819.4 Date: April 26, 2004 James H. Roberts, III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Kelly, for the protester. Michael A. Hordell, Esq., Laura L. Hoffman, Esq., Jennifer W. Persico, Esq., and Charles H. Carpenter, Esq., Pepper Hamilton, for Advanced Interactive Systems, Inc., an intervenor. Clarence D. Long, III, Esq., and Robert M. Allen, Esq., Department of the Air Force, and Thedlus L. Thompson, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's challenge to a task order placed against a Federal Supply Schedule on the grounds that it includes items not on the awardee's schedule is denied, where the record shows that the agency conducted a full and open competition; to the extent that the agency failed to comply with the requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation § 8.401(d), such violations did not prejudice the protester. 2. Protest that the agency violated Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 12 because the awardee's weapons simulator and its components were not commercial items is denied, where the record shows that both are commercial items; absent a solicitation provision or some indication that proposed items are not commercial, an agency is not required to formally evaluate and document whether proposed items are in fact commercial items when using commercial items procedures. 3. Protester's challenge to the agency's finding that its proposed weapons simulator was technically unacceptable because the proposal failed to satisfy a ballistics validation requirement is denied, where the agency repeatedly requested ballistics data for the simulator, much of which was not provided; the protester's corresponding challenge to the agency's finding that the awardee's proposed weapons simulator complied with the solicitation's technical requirements is denied where the record supports the agency's conclusions, and the protester has not shown that the agency's interpretations of the solicitation or awardee's proposal were unreasonable.

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