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B-419701 May 12, 2021 1 (2021-05-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaolri0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo_ U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Equitus Corporation File: B-419701 Date: May 12, 2021 Robert Guidry, the protester. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, and Josephine Farinelli, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest raised subsequent to a post-award debriefing provided in connection with a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) procurement conducted pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 638 is untimely where it was filed more than 10 days after the basis of protest was known; since the procurement was not conducted on the basis of competitive proposals, GAO's timeliness rules at 4 C.F.R. § 21.2(a)(2), which apply to protests that challenge a procurement conducted on the basis of competitive proposals under which a debriefing is requested and required, are not applicable. DECISION Equitus Corporation, a small business located in Clearwater, Florida, protests the Department of the Air Force's decision not to fund Equitus's phase II proposal under the Air Force's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program solicitation No. J201- CSO1, for research and development of defense-related dual purpose technologies/ solutions.1 The protester asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal. We dismiss the protest. 1 SBIR is a government-funded program that solicits proposals, in three phases, from small business concerns to engage in federal research and research and development. 15 U.S.C. § 638. Under phase I, the agency evaluates the scientific, technical and commercial merit of the ideas submitted. If successful, the firm may be invited to apply for a phase II award to further develop the concept. After the completion of phase II, firms are expected to obtain funding from the private sector and/or non-SBIR sources to develop the concept into a product for sale. This protest involves a proposal for a phase II award.

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