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B-415233 1 (2017-12-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduhd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Sierra Nevada Corporation File: B-415233 Date: December 5, 2017 Steven M. Masiello, Esq., and Joseph G. Martinez, Esq., Dentons US LLP, for the protester. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Christopher C. Schwan, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably rejected proposal and cancelled solicitation for fixed-wing utility aircraft where proposed aircraft could not meet solicitation's payload requirements because it would have a center of gravity that exceeded the limit established by the manufacturer. DECISION Sierra Nevada Corporation, of Sparks, Nevada, protests the rejection of the proposal it submitted in response to, and the cancellation of, request for proposals (RFP) No. W58RGZ-16-R-0004, issued by the Department of the Army for a fixed-wing utility aircraft. Sierra Nevada asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal as unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation requested proposals to provide a commercially available fixed-wing aircraft certified by the Federal Aviation Administration, and modified to include Army- specified mission equipment, including communications, navigation, surveillance and aircraft survivability equipment. Contracting Officer's Statement/Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 2. The fixed-wing utility aircraft will be used to perform time-sensitive movements of key personnel and equipment. Id. The solicitation included a product description document (PDD) which set out in detail 86 minimum performance standards

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