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B-419370 1 (2021-01-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecin0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: CMSoft, Inc. File: B-419370 Date: January 26, 2021 Francoise Farhat for the protester. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., Tiffany R. Schwartz, Esq., and Max V. Kidalov, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's method for calculating required work allocation is denied where the method used was reasonable and consistent with the proposal submission instructions, applicable guidance documents, and statutory requirements. DECISION CMSoft, Inc., a small business located in Palo Alto, California, protests the rejection of its proposal by the Department of the Air Force under the Department of Defense's (DOD) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program broad agency announcement (BAA) 18A, topic number AF18A-T004, which sought multi-physics models for parachute deployment and braking. The protester asserts that the agency unreasonably calculated the percentage of work proposed for CMSoft's teaming partner, resulting in CMSoft's proposal being found ineligible to proceed to the next phase. We deny the protest BACKGROUND The STTR program is a government-funded program that solicits proposals, in three phases, from domestic small business concerns to engage in federal research/research and development (R/R&D). In phase one (project feasibility), the agency evaluates the scientific, technical and commercial merit of the ideas submitted. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2. In phase two (technology development), major research and development is funded to develop projects into technology to support the warfighter. Id. at 3. In phase three (commercialization), small businesses are expected to obtain non-STTR government or private funding to

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