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B-310329 1 (2007-12-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauju0001 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Blane International Group, Inc. File: B-310329 Date: December 13, 2007 Jeffrey N. Schwartz, Esq., Lawrence E. Newlin & Associates, PC, for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq., and Bradley J. Crosson, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, 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 Contracting agency engaged in meaningful discussions regarding protester's delivery plan, such that the protester should have been aware of agency's concerns, where it informed protester that its delivery plan was difficult to read and follow. DECISION Blane International Group, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to GSS, Inc., an affiliate of Sporting Supplies International (SSI), under request for proposals (RFP) No. W52PIJ-07R-0104, for ammunition. Blane primarily asserts that the agency failed to engage in meaningful discussions. We deny the protest. On June 28, 2007, the Army issued the solicitation for nonstandard ammunition for the Afghanistan National Security Forces and the Government of Iraq. The solicitation was structured for multiple awards: one for the Afghanistan requirement, and two for the Iraq requirement (Iraq A and Iraq B). RFP at 49. Award was to be made to the firm or firms submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offer, with technical acceptability to be evaluated based on three subfactors: delivery plan, shipping plan, and quality assurance plan. RFP at 42. The solicitation stated that the Technical Subfactors will be evaluated on a Go/No Go Basis; and only contractors who receive a Go on all Sub-factors under the Technical Factor will be evaluated on Price. Id. The Army received 7 proposals for the Afghanistan requirement and 10 for the Iraq requirement by the August 1 closing date. The Army established two competitive

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