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B-414587,B-414587.2 1 (2017-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtjg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. File: B-414587; B-414587.2 Date: May 11, 2017 Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq., Carrie F. Apfel, Esq., Carla J. Weiss, Esq., and Joshua A. Violanti, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester. Andrew E. Shipley, Esq., Lee P. Curtis, Esq., Seth H. Locke, Esq., and Andrew J. Victor, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, and Suzette W. Derrevere, Esq., and Jade C. Toman, Esq., for The Boeing Company, the intervenor. Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., and Maj. Samuel T. Miller, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's award of a sole-source contract is dismissed where the agency proposes to seek capability statements from responsible sources in order to determine whether competition is necessary. DECISION General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. (GDMS) of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the decision of the Department of the Air Force to award contract No. FA8217-17-C-0003 on a sole-source basis to The Boeing Company, Defense, Space, and Security, of Huntington Beach, California, for the Next Generation Cryptographic Architecture on the Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) program. The protester contends that the Air Force failed to follow the requisite competitive bidding procedures and that the stated justification for awarding the contract on a sole-source basis to The Boeing Company is unreasonable. The protester also contends that the agency improperly bundled its requirements. We dismiss the protest as academic because the agency has notified our Office that it intends to take corrective action. Agency Notice, Apr. 26, 2017; Agency Email Clarification, May 2, 2017. We do not consider academic protests because to do so would serve no useful public policy purpose. Ferris Optical, B-403012.2, B-403012.3,

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