Updated June 20, 2025
DIGEST
1. Protester is not an interested party to challenge solicitation requirements as unduly restrictive of competition where protester can meet the requirements.
2. Requirement in Small Business Innovation Research solicitation that proposal be signed by both a unique customer and a unique end-user is reasonable since it supports agency’s obligation to ensure that there is a customer who will support procurement of the item and an end-user that needs the item.
DECISION
Compotech, Inc., of Brewer, Maine, protests the terms of small business innovation research (SBIR) phase II solicitation, topic AFX24.5, innovative defense-related dual purpose technologies/solutions with a clear Air Force stakeholder need, issued by the Air Force under broad agency announcement (BAA) Department of Defense (DOD) X25.5 commercial solutions opening. Compotech asserts that the solicitation is unduly restrictive of competition and that the agency is improperly treating a non-material requirement as mandatory.
We deny the protest.
Updated June 12, 2025
Protester: Compotech, Inc.
Agency: Department of the Air Force
File number: B-423368.1
Outcome: Denied
Decision Date: Jun 12, 2025
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