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B-276240 1 (1997-05-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafxt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller 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: Logicon RDA File: B-276240; B-276240.2; B-276240.3 Date: May 23, 1997 Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Fran Baskin, Esq., Holmes, Schwartz & Gordon, for the protester. Joel S. Rubinstein, Esq., Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, for Hughes Associates, Inc., an interveno r. Elaine A. Eder, Esq., and Timothy A. Chenault, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against termination of protester's contract is denied where agency reasonably determined, after award, that protester's use of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) as a subcontractor was contrary to Federal Acquisition Regulation prohibition against FFRDCs competing with private firms under federal government solicitations. DECISION Logicon RDA protests the Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard's terminating for the convenience of the government the contract awarded to Logicon under request for proposals No. DTCG39-96-R-E00093, for research and development services in the areas of fire science and fire protection engineering. The Coast Guard terminated Logicon's contract after concluding that Logicon's proposal of Sandia National Laboratories--a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE)--as a subcontractor was inconsistent with the regulations prohibiting FFRDCs from competing with private concerns. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award of an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, task order, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research in the areas of fire science, fire protection engineering, toxicity, human factors, reliability, and risk assessment. The solicitation set forth an estimated level of effort of 70,500 hours (over 5 years),

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