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B-415730,B-415730.3 1 (2018-02-23)

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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            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:  Granite State Manufacturing

File:        B-415730; B-415730.3

Date:        February 23, 2018

Ronald K. Henry, Esq., David Hibey, Esq., Craig A. Schwartz, Esq., and Alexandra L.
Barbee-Garrett, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for the protester.
David B. Mercier, Esq., and Emilia Muche Thompson, Esq., Department of the Navy,
Naval Sea Systems Command, for the agency.
Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging exclusion from competitive range is dismissed where the protester
failed to timely challenge the basis for its exclusion, and is not an interested party to
challenge the agency's competitive range determination.
DECISION

Allard Nazarian Group d/b/a Granite State Manufacturing (GSM), of Manchester, New
Hampshire, protests its exclusion from the competitive range under request for
proposals (RFP) No. N66604-17-R-0064 issued by the Department of the Navy for
anti-submarine warfare combat systems. GSM challenges its exclusion and the
agency's evaluation of another company's proposal.

We dismiss the protest.

On January 9, 2017, the Naval Sea Systems Command Program Executive Office for
Integrated Warfare Systems issued the RFP to procure anti-submarine warfare combat
systems. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFP at 21. The RFP contemplated the award of
an indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract that included fixed-price,
cost-plus-fixed fee, and cost-reimbursable contract line item numbers (CLINs). Id.
at 111-12. Award would be based on the best-value tradeoff consideration of three
evaluation factors: (1) technical capability; (2) past performance; and (3) total evaluated

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