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B-294959 1 (2004-12-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptappv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability 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: HDL Research Lab, Inc. File: B-294959 Date: December 21, 2004 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., and Theodore M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, P.C., for the protester. Capt. Victor G. Vogel and John J. Reynolds, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where award was made on the basis of initial proposals and agency reasonably found that protester's proposal contained numerous informational deficiencies and weaknesses, agency reasonably excluded proposal from consideration for award. DECISION HDL Research Lab, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Custom Manufacturing & Engineering, Inc. (CME) under request for proposals (RFP) No. W15P7T-04-R- C006, issued by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) for tactical power supplies (TPS). HDL principally challenges the evaluation of its proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP sought proposals for new designs of the TPS (part Nos. PP-2953D/U and PP-6224C/U) to replace the existing TPS (part No. PP-6224B/U), used in support of SINCGARS radios, Patriot missiles, and various helicopters. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract. Offerors were to furnish technical and management proposals detailing their designs, along with first article testing (FAT) plans in accordance with detailed instructions in RFP section L. Proposals were to be evaluated under four factors, listed in descending order of importance (with related subfactors)--technical (design and reliability test program); management (contractor logistics support (CLS )/warranty program, facilities, pre-production and FAT schedule, and quality system);

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