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B-400901 1 (2009-02-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadatd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL AL A , GA O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Trident World Systems, Inc. File: B-400901 Date: February 23, 2009 Richard D. Adams, Trident World Systems, Inc., for the protester. MAJ Walter R. Duke and Polly H. Chatham, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation requirement for Aerial Remotely Piloted Vehicle Target System including scoring hardware and services is unduly restrictive is denied where record established that the requirements were reasonably designed to ensure that the agency's actual needs would be met, and the protester failed to establish either that it is incapable of meeting specifications or is otherwise competitively harmed by them. DECISION Trident World Systems, Inc. (TWS) of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W31P4Q-08-R-031 1, issued by the Department of the Army for Aerial Remotely Piloted Vehicle Target System (RPVT) to include scoring hardware and services. TWS contends the specifications are restrictive and requests that the requirement for the scoring hardware and services be broken out for a separate award. We deny the protest. The RFP was issued as a small business set-aside on August 6, 2008 and contemplated the award of a contract with fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost reimbursable line items for a base period with four 1-year options. The RPVT requirement includes support services, related support equipment, mission payload system devices and training to be provided by the contractor in support of demonstrations, simulation and live fire training and testing at designated locations, installations, and ranges worldwide. RFP at 5. The RFP also contained a

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