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B-294393 1 (2004-09-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapon0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Noble Solutions File: B-294393 Date: September 10, 2004 Henry Noble for the protester. Craig S. McCaa, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably determined not to select protester's proposal for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract where the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's proposal as technically unacceptable and the protester has not meaningfully challenged the agency's evaluation. DECISION Noble Solutions protests the evaluation of its proposal under solicitation No. FY04. 1, issued by the Department of Defense (DOD) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Noble, whose proposal was not selected for award, challenges the agency's evaluation. We deny the protest. The SBIR program is conducted pursuant to the Small Business Innovation Development Act, 15 U.S.C. § 638 (2000), which requires certain federal agencies to reserve a portion of their research and development funds for awards to small businesses. In addition to advancing the role of small businesses and the participation of minority and disadvantaged persons in research and development, the objectives of DOD's SBIR program include stimulating technological innovation in DOD's critical technology area and increasing the commercial application of DOD-supported research and development results. The program has the following three phases: Phase I is to determine the scientific, technical, and commercial merit of ideas; Phase II is the principal research and development effort resulting in a well-defined, deliverable prototype; and in Phase III, the small business seeks to

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