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B-400135 1 (2008-08-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawbf0001 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: Lockheed Martin MS2 Tactical Systems File: B-400135; B-400135.2 Date: August 8, 2008 Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., Cameron S. Hamrick, Esq., David A. Dowd, Esq., Roger D. Waldron, Esq., Luke Levasseur, Esq., Melissa L. Baker, Esq., and Sarah A. Sulkowski, Esq., Mayer Brown; and Bucky P. Mansuy, Esq., Lockheed Martin MS2 Tactical Systems, for the protester. John W. Chierichella, Esq., Anne B. Perry, Esq., Jonathan S. Aronie, Esq., Keith R. Szeliga, Esq., Jesse J. Williams, Esq., and Daniel J. Marcinak, Esq., Sheppard Mullin, for Northrop Grumman, the intervenor. Bridget A. Jarvis, Esq., Christopher J. Biglin, Esq., Russell P. Spindler, Esq., Gregory Ircink, Esq., Stephanie Kroke, Esq., and Kristopher Fischer, Esq., Naval Air Systems Command, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably determined, in procurement for unmanned maritime surveillance aircraft, that awardee had significant advantage over protester with respect to past performance where: protester's subcontractor, responsible for approximately 50 percent of contract effort, had recent past performance history of being unable to resolve staffing and resource issues, resulting in adverse cost and schedule performance on very relevant contracts for unmanned aircraft; record did not demonstrate that protester's subcontractor had implemented systemic improvement that resulted in improved performance; while operating division of the awardee also had performance problems on very relevant contracts for unmanned aircraft, many had been addressed through systemic improvement; and overall performance of awardee's team on most evaluated contract efforts was rated better than satisfactory, while the overall performance of protester's team on 11 of 26 contract efforts was only marginal. DECISION Lockheed Martin MS2 Tactical Systems (LM) protests the Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR) award of a contract to Northrop Grumman (NG) under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00019-07-R-0001, for the Broad Area Maritime

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