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B-285821 1 (2000-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalei0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: SDS International File: B-285821 Date: September 21, 2000 Barbara S. Kino sky, Esq., James S. Phillips, Esq., and Rachel Smith, Esq., Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins, for the protester. David R. Johnson, Esq., and Michael K Murphy, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, for NLX Corporation, the intervenor. Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq., Robert D. M. Allen, Esq., and Warren D. Leishman, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. New and independent grounds of protest included in a protester's comments on the agency report must independently meet the timeliness requirements of the General Accounting Office's Bid Protest Regulations; extensions of time for filing comments do not waive the timeliness requirements. 2. Contracting agencies are not obligated to afford all-encompassing discussions that spoon-feed an offeror each item that must be addressed to improve a proposal; agencies are only required to lead offerors into the areas of their proposals considered deficient and requiring amplification. DECISION SDS International protests the award of a contract to NLX Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. F44650-00-R-0004, issued by the Department of the Air Force for F-4 aircrew training and courseware development for the German Air Force contingent assigned to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. SDS argues that the agency improperly failed to conduct meaningful discussions with SDS and maintains that the agency's best value determination was flawed. We deny the protest.

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