The RFP indicated that one of the three contracts would be awarded to a small business, but that the set-aside would be dissolved if no small business offer met the solicitation’s criteria. The RFP provided that the agency “may award up to three (3) IDIQ FFP contracts to the responsible offeror(s) whose proposal represents the lowest priced, technically acceptable (LPTA) offer(s). The required modular scalable vests are to include a low profile vest, covered in camouflage cloth, with four soft armor panels (front, back and two side panels) that can be inserted into a tactical outer carrier to accommodate hard armor protective inserts. The RFP, issued on May 15, 2015, requested proposals for the supply of torso and extremity protection modular scalable vests for integration into the soldier protection system. Point Blank asserts that the Army’s evaluation of Point Blank’s subcontracting plan was unreasonable, and that the three award decisions otherwise were improper. W91CRB-15-R-0030, for torso and extremity protection modular scalable vests. (KDH), of Eden, North Carolina, under request for proposals (RFP) No. (Hawk), of Pembroke Pines, Florida, and KDH Defense Systems, Inc. Point Blank Enterprises, Inc., of Pompano Beach, Florida, protests the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command’s award of contracts to Bethel Industries (Bethel), of Jersey City, New Jersey, Hawk Protection, Inc. Protest that agency acted improperly in awarding indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to three offerors when one of the offerors was proposed to furnish at least one significant component to the other two is denied where the solicitation provision in question, that no offeror may receive more than one award, did not on its face preclude a prime contractor from also serving as a subcontractor to another awardee. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. McNutt, Department of the Army, for the agency. Gocial, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for KDH Defense Systems, Inc., the intervenors. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal and Ganister, LLC, for Hawk Protection, Inc., and Bethel Industries and Albert B. Boland, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Debolt, Esq., Elizabeth Ann Buehler, Esq., Collier L.
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