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B-416685.6 1 (2020-05-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebbj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: M3 Partners, LLC File: B-416685.6 Date: May 4, 2020 Michael W. Middleton for the protester. Eric M. Carlson, Esq., and Theresa Francis, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation and rejection of an unsolicited proposal is dismissed because GAO will not generally review a protest which would mandate that an agency accept an unsolicited proposal and procure from the firm on a sole-source basis. 2. Protest that the agency improperly used the contents of the protester's unsolicited proposal is denied where the record does not support the protester's contention that the agency appropriated its idea, or that its solution was innovative or unique. DECISION M3 Partners, LLC, of Greenville, South Carolina, protests the handling and evaluation of its unsolicited proposal by the Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). M3 also asserts that the agency has improperly used the contents of M3's unsolicited proposal in a subsequent solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The protester's unsolicited proposal at issue here concerns certain systems on the UC-35C aircraft. The systems at issue are similar to systems on the Navy's UC-12W aircraft. Both of these aircraft fall within the purview of the Navy's Lead Class Desk Engineer for PMA 207 Commercial Derivative Aircraft programs (hereinafter, the lead program engineer).

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