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B-401647,B-401647.2 1 (2009-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbbk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 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: Telephonics Corporation File: B-401647; B-401647.2 Date: October 16, 2009 Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Nicole Owren-Wiest, Esq., Trayce Winfrey Howard, Esq., and Julie A. Dunne, Esq., Wiley Rein, for the protester. John W. Chierichella, Esq., Anne B. Perry, Esq., Keith Szeliga, Esq., Jessica Mailman, Esq., Jesse J. Williams, Esq., and Marko W. Kipa, Esq., Sheppard Mullin; Richard A. Sauber, Esq., Deneen J. Melander, Esq., and Rebecca LeGrand, Esq., Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber; Joseph 0. Costello, Esq., Northrop Grumman Corporation, for Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC, the intervenor. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Walter Harbort, Jr., Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of this proposal. DIGEST Protest challenging exclusion of protester's proposal from revised competitive range is denied where proposal was both lower rated under technical factor and significantly higher priced than the two proposals included in competitive range; agency reasonably found it had no reasonable chance of being selected for award. DECISION Telephonics Corporation, of Farmingdale, New York, protests the U.S. Army Materiel Command's (AMC) exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range, and the subsequent award of a contract to the Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC (NGCI), a joint venture of Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems and Cobham Defense Products, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W15P7T-08-R-L405, for the VIS-X, an improved vehicle intercom system (VIS). Telephonics challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and conduct of the procurement. We deny the protest. A VIS provides communications between crew members and interfaces with vehicle radio systems in tactical combat vehicles. The agency reports that, while the current tactical VIS--the AN/VIC-3(V), produced by Northrop Grumman (with Cobham as a

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