B-290470,B-290470.2: Aug 19, 2002

A firm protested a Naval Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA) decision on a contract award to serve as the design agent for technology development with respect to the DD(X) multi-mission naval surface combatant program, contending that the competition was not conducted on a common basis and that the evaluation of proposals was unreasonable and otherwise improper. GAO held that the protester was not comp...

B-290470,B-290470.2: Aug 19, 2002

Is denied where there would have been no material technical benefit to protester from proposing the destroyer and its failure to propose it did not materially affect the evaluation. Protester therefore was not competitively prejudiced by any unequal treatment. 2. Test and evaluation costs is denied where (1) agency in fact has additional money available. (2) protester has not shown that it would h...