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B-299382 1 (2007-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauel0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: C. Martin Company, Inc. File: B-299382 Date: April 17, 2007 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP, for the protester. Maj. Kevin J. Wilkinson, and Lt. Col. David L. Bell, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that its proposal was improperly excluded from competition is denied where exclusion was based on agency's reasonable determination that proposal was technically unacceptable due to its inclusion of outdated regulations, procedures and requirements, indicating a lack of understanding or awareness of solicitation requirements. DECISION C. Martin Company, Inc. (CMC) protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4890-06-R-0153, issued by the Department of the Air Force for maintenance and operation of the Air Force's Primary Training Ranges. CMC maintains that any deficiencies in its proposal were minor, and that it should have been provided an opportunity to correct them. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on October 17, 2006 as a small business set-aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a 6-month base period, with five 1-year options. The RFP provided for a three-step evaluation. First, technical proposals were to be evaluated as acceptable, reasonably susceptible of being made acceptable, or unacceptable based on five evaluation criteria: program management, transition plan, maintenance/logistics, quality, and operations approach. RFP at 108-111. An unacceptable rating under any criterion would render the technical proposal unacceptable, and the proposal would no longer be considered for award. RFP at 108. Second, the agency would evaluate the price reasonableness of the remaining proposals, and then rank them according to overall evaluated price. Third, the

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