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B-408001 1 (2013-05-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpnl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Acc; tabt Infegilty ReiIbiIkty 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. D e c is io n ........................................................................................................................ Matter of: General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems File: B-408001 Date: May 13, 2013 Daniel E. Chudd, Esq., and James A. Tucker, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for HDT Tactical Systems, Inc., an intervenor. Michael G. McCormack, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that awardee's proposed rescue vehicle should have been rejected as technically unacceptable for failing to demonstrate compliance with two mandatory solicitation requirements is denied where record demonstrates that evaluators had a reasonable basis for concluding that the requirements were met. DECISION General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS), of St. Petersburg, Florida, protests the award of a contract to HDT Tactical Systems, Inc. (HDT), of Solon, Ohio, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8629-12-R-2422, issued by the Department of the Air Force for Guardian Angel Air-Deployable Rescue Vehicles (GAARVs).1 The protester argues that the agency should have rejected HDT's proposal as technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. 1 The GAARV is a ground vehicle, deployable by air, that rescue teams can maneuver over adverse terrain to search for, recover, and transport isolated personnel from an area of high threat to a defendable location. RFP, Statement of Objectives, at 1.

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