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B-422576 Jul 31, 2024 1 (2024-07-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqqt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO .U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: CymSTAR, LLC -----------------------------------------------------------I File: B-422576 Date: July 31, 2024 Jason N. Workmaster, Esq., Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Ashley Powers, Esq., Alexandra Prime, Esq., and Connor Farrell, Esq., Miller & Chevalier Chartered, for the protester. J. Ryan Frazee, Esq., Jennifer Eve Retener, Esq., and Jonathan C. Clark, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for PTC Solutions JV, LLC, the intervenor. Colonel Patricia Wiegman-Lenz, Geoffrey R. Townsend, Esq., Christian H. Robertson II, Esq., and Amy L. Johnson, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Michelle Litteken, Esq., and Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging various solicitation terms as ambiguous or preventing offerors from competing on a common basis is denied where the protester's interpretation of the solicitation is not reasonably supported, and the solicitation provides sufficient information to allow offerors to intelligently prepare proposals. 2. Protest that agency failed to mitigate an unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest held by an offeror is denied where the record shows that the information was voluntarily disclosed to the offeror by a private party pursuant to an arms-length agreement between the two firms. 3. Protest challenging solicitation's failure to disclose the relative importance of evaluation subfactors and factors is denied where the protester's allegations are based on a misunderstanding of applicable law. DECISION CymSTAR, LLC, a small business of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, challenges the terms of fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR) No. FA8617-24-R-BOO1, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the acquisition of a maintenance training system (MTS) for the agency's fleet of T-7A aircraft. The protester challenges the solicitation terms pertaining to the cost to obtain necessary technical data, as well as the FOPR terms governing the weight afforded to evaluation subfactors and factors. CymSTAR also

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