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B-270880 1 (1996-05-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaebp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Valentec Systems, Inc. File: B-270880; B-270880.2 Date: May 16, 1996 Timothy B. Mills, Esq., Michael J. Schaengold, Esq., and Christy L. Gherlein, Esq., Patton, Boggs, L.L.P., for the protester. Thomas J. Madden, Esq., John J. Pavlick, Jr., Esq., Fernand A. Lavallee, Esq., Carla D. Craft, Esq., and Paul A. Debolt, Esq., Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, for Lockheed Martin Ordnance Systems, an intervenor. Bradley J. Crosson, Esq., and Jeffrey I. Kessler, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly allowed a directed source subcontractor that was also competing as a prime contractor to obtain an unfair competitive advantage is denied where the record shows that the contracting agency met its responsibility in such situations to ensure that all offerors are competing on an equal basis, and where any prejudice that the protester may have suffered was a result of its decision to ignore the solicitation's explicit instructions for preparing its price. 2. Contracting agency was not required to conduct a cost analysis of offerors' proposals even though offerors were required to submit cost and pricing data where the contracting officer reasonably determined that there was adequate price competition, and where the solicitation specifically advised that award of the fixed- price contract would be on a price-only basis, with the only cost analysis to occur after award, pursuant to a reopener provision. 419516

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