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B-293968.2 1 (2004-08-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapmx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Glatz Aeronautical Corporation File: B-293968.2 Date: August 10, 2004 Jeffrey D. Glatz for the protester. Mitzi S. Phalen, Esq., and Richard J. Huber, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's evaluation and selection of higher rated proposals for awards, under the Small Business Innovation Research program, for research and development into a lightweight crashworthy aircraft seating system is reasonable where awardees proposed new and innovative research, which was the expressed purpose of the solicitation, while protester essentially proposed additional testing to validate a seat that had not proven crash-worthy in prior testing, failed to propose specific changes to materials or design to address the excessive forces recorded during prior testing, and did not otherwise propose any significant new research and development. DECISION Glatz Aeronautical Corporation protests the evaluation of proposals under solicitation No. FY04.1, issued by the Department of Defense (DOD) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Glatz's proposal was not one of the three proposals selected for award. We deny the protest. The SBIR program is conducted pursuant to the Small Business Innovation Development Act, 15 U.S.C. § 638 (2000), which requires certain federal agencies to reserve a portion of their research and development funds for awards to small businesses. In addition to advancing the role of small businesses and the participation of minority and disadvantaged persons in research and development, the objectives of DOD's SBIR program include stimulating technological innovation in DOD's critical technology area, and increasing the commercial application of

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