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B-278408 1 (1998-01-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahom0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Thermolten Tech., Inc. File: B-278408; B-278408.2 Date: January 26, 1998 E. Kent Hirsch, Esq., for the protester. Frank J. Borgia for Burns and Roe Enterprises, Inc., an intervenor. Joshua A. Kranzberg, Esq., and Lisa R. Simon, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest against conduct of debriefing, contending that agency should have had experts capable of understanding technical aspects of proposal conduct the debriefing in order to allow protester to elaborate on its inadequately written proposal, is denied; the adequacy of a debriefing is a procedural matter concerning agency actions after award which are unrelated to the validity of the award, and, in any event, the purpose of a debriefing is not to give offerors the opportunity to cure deficiencies in their proposals, but to furnish the basis for the selection decision and contract award. 2. Protest that agency improperly rejected protester's proposal for failure to meet solicitation's technical requirements is denied where the record shows that proposal contained major deficiencies--a failure to present a coherent explanation of the offered process for disposing of chemical munitions and a general lack of care in assessing and managing the potentially lethal byproducts of the process--reasonably warranting its rejection. 3. Post-award protest that agency improperly limited competition to offerors of mature technologies is dismissed as untimely where solicitation made clear that agency was seeking only such technologies and protest thus should have been filed before the time set for receipt of initial proposals. DECISION Thermolten Tech., Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAMO1-97-R-0031, for identification of technologies other than incineration for demilitarization of assembled chemical weapons. Thermolten generally challenges the evaluation of its proposal and contends that, given the unique nature of its process, which could not be explained

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