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B-405303.1 1 (2011-08-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbxo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: li AL A , G A O Comptroller General Accuntabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Dec*ionapproved for public release. Matter of: Integral Systems, Inc. File: B-405303.1 Date: August 16, 2011 Joseph D. West, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; J. Scott Hommer III, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Nathan C. Guerrero, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Parent corporation is not interested party to protest elimination from consideration for award of proposal submitted by parent's wholly-owned subsidiary where parent fails to show that subsidiary is other than separate and distinct legal entity with which government would contract if award were made under proposal in question. DECISION Integral Systems, Inc. (ISI), of Columbia, Maryland, protests the exclusion from the competitive range of a proposal submitted by its wholly-owned subsidiary, CVG, Inc. (CVG), of Chantilly, Virginia, in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. QTA-010-CTA-0003 issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for worldwide commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) solutions. Integral asserts that the agency's evaluation of the proposal was unreasonable in several respects. We dismiss the protest because ISI is not an interested party. BACKGROUND On July 6, 2010, the agency issued the solicitation connected with this protest. The solicitation sought a broad array of commercial SATCOM services and equipment and contemplated the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts. RFP §§ C.1.1, M.1. Awards were to be made to offerors that submitted proposals deemed most advantageous to the Government based on the following four evaluation factors: technical/management, corporate experience, past

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