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B-406397 1 (2012-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpem0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Pacific Blue Innovations File: B-406397 Date: May 11, 2012 Gary Abramov, for the protester. Debra J. Talley, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision not to fund the protester's proposal under phase II of the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research program is denied where there is no basis in the record to question the reasonableness of the agency's evaluation. DECISION Pacific Blue Innovations (PBI), of San Diego, California, protests the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command's determination not to award it phase II funding for a project PBI proposed under the Department of Defense (DoD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. PBI contends that the agency improperly evaluated PBI's proposal to develop a dual purpose hand grenade. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The SBIR program is designed to increase the participation of small business concerns in federally funded research or research and development (R&D). See Small Business Innovation Research Program Act of 1982, 15 U.S.C. § 638 (2006). Pursuant to this authority, federal agencies (such as the Army) with R&D extramural budgets in excess of $100 million are required to provide a program under which a portion of the agency's research or R&D effort is reserved for award to small business concerns through a three-phased process. See 15 U.S.C. §§ 638(e)(4), (f). Under phase I, small businesses are invited to submit proposals to conduct research on one or more topics specified in the annual SBIR program solicitation.

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