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B-271882 1 (1996-08-26)

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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548

Decision                                  DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                         A protected decision was issued on the date below
                                         and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This
                                         version has been redacted or approved by the parties
                                         involved for public release.


Matter of: Trimble Navigation, Ltd.

File:        B-271882; B-271882.2

Date:        August 26, 1996

William W. Goodrich, Jr., Esq., Richard J. Webber, Esq., Alison J. Micheli, Esq., and
Tenley A. Carp, Esq., Arent Fox, for the protester.
Stan Hinton, Esq., and Paul W. Searles, Esq., Baker & Botts, for Rockwell
International Corporation, an intervenor.
Vera Meza-Dombkowski, Esq., and David H. Scott, Esq., Department of the Army,
for the agency.
Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

In a negotiated procurement for a hand-held global positioning system receiver,
award could not properly be made to an offeror whose proposal did not
demonstrate that it satisfied the solicitation's requirement for a nondevelopmental
item.
DECISION

Trimble Navigation, Ltd. protests the award of a contract to Rockwell Collins Inc.,
under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAD05-96-R-9011, issued by the U.S. Army
Aberdeen Proving Ground Support Activity for the Special Operations Lightweight
Global Positioning System Receiver (SOLGR). Trimble protests that Rockwell's
offered receiver is not a nondevelopmental item (NDI), as required by the RFP.

We sustain the protest.

The global positioning system (GPS) is a space-based navigation system that
provides military users worldwide with precise three-dimensional position, velocity,
and time data. The standard Department of Defense hand-held, precise positioning


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