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B-298757 1 (2006-12-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasrv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States 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: Hamilton Sundstrand Power Systems File: B-298757 Date: December 8, 2006 Frederick W. Claybrook, Jr., Esq., Michael D. Newman, Esq., Brian M. Russ, Esq., Thomas A. Kruza, III, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Maj. John G. Terra, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably excluded protester's proposal from the competitive range where proposal contained multiple informational deficiencies pertaining to required elements of design even after protester had been given the opportunity to address the deficiencies during discussions. DECISION Hamilton Sundstrand Power Systems (HS) protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8518-05-R- 75369, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the production of large aircraft start system (LASS) units. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably determined its proposal to be technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The LASS is a four-wheeled, multi-system towable vehicle used to start engines on a variety of Air Force aircraft. LASS units deliver compressed air to start an aircraft's jet turbine engines and provide pneumatic power for the aircraft's various electrical and mechanical systems. The units are used when maintenance and testing functions are conducted on aircraft in hangars and other enclosed areas since they are capable of delivering the required power to the aircraft without posing the danger to personnel and facilities that self-ignition of the jet turbine engines would engender. The units consist of an enclosure assembly, turbine engine assembly, fuel

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