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B-278195.2 1 (1998-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Robotic Systems Technology File: B-278195.2 Date: January 7, 1998 Donald J. Walsh, Esq., Scaldara & Potler, L.L.P., for the protester. John B. Denniston, Esq., and Jason A. Levine, Esq., Covington & Burling, for Intellitec Division, Technical Products Group, Inc., an intervenor. Joshua A. Kranzberg, Esq., and Phillip B. Hunter, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Communications between offeror and contracting agency which were under- taken for the purpose of accounting for an apparent inconsistency in the offeror's cost summaries, the resolution of which was clear from a close reading of the cost proposal, without the agency providing the offeror any opportunity for substantive revision of its cost proposal, constituted clarifications and not discussions. 2. Agency reasonably determined that protester's proposal was unacceptable where the technical proposal was deficient in a number of material areas including the failure to provide adequate information about the proposed test program and a crucial aspect of the item to be developed, and the cost proposal lacked sufficient detail concerning substantial work to be performed by subcontractors. 3. Contracting agency is not obligated to conduct discussions with offeror which submitted unacceptable cost and technical proposals where the solicitation advised all offerors that the government intended to make award on the basis of initial proposals without holding discussions, if possible, and specifically warned offerors that initial proposals should contain the offeror's best technical and cost terms. DECISION Robotic Systems Technology (RST) protests the award of a contract to the Intellitec Division of Technical Products Group, Inc. (Intellitec), under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAMO1-96-R-0079, issued by the Department of the Army for engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) of the Joint Services Lightweight Standoff Chemical Agent Detector (JSLSCAD). RST contends that the

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