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B-422433.2 Aug 09, 2024 1 (2024-08-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqru0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Knudsen Systems, Inc. File: B-422433.2 Date: August 9, 2024 Thomas M. Craig, Esq., and Emily A. Spence, Esq., Fluet & Associates, PLLC, for the protester. Christopher Lybeck, Esq., and Laura A. Whitten, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where agency's market research was insufficient to conclude that agency would likely receive proposals from at least two responsible small business concerns that could meet solicitation's requirements at a fair market price, and therefore, agency's decision to restrict solicitation to small businesses was unreasonable. DECISION Knudsen Systems Inc. (KSI), a woman-owned small business of Ogdensburg, New York, protests the terms of amendment 4 to request for proposals (RFP) No. N0025323R0022, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Navy), for sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) sounding sets. The protester argues that the solicitation's amended terms render the agency's market research and resulting set-aside decision unreasonable, and therefore contends that the requirement should be competed on an unrestricted basis. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On June 1, 2023, the Navy issued the RFP as a total small business set-aside pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15 and subpart 19.5.

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