United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2003-01-07 monographic deposited born digital 18 p. GA 1.13:B-291449 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-291449 P0b002ee18fd4c636 f:291449 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-291449 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-291449 B-291449 Comptroller General Decision In making source selection on procurement for development of advanced beyond-line-of-sight terminals, source selection authority (SSA) acted within scope of authority and reasonably in (1) lowering awardee's proposal's risk rating from high risk, assessed by lower‑level evaluators because of concerns about its antenna design on two of seven proposed platforms, to low risk, based on SSA's determination that this did not represent significant weakness because of non‑technical programmatic considerations and awardee's mitigation plan addressing this weakness, and (2) increasing a weakness, assessed by lower-level evaluators to protester's proposal associated with protester's proposed reuse of legacy code written using Ada computer language, to a significant weakness, because this weakness had systemic effect that could inhibit long-term benefits of entire system. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-291449/html/GAOREPORTS-B-291449.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-291449/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-291449.pdf GAO/B-291449 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-291449 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-291449; Raytheon Company, B-291449, January 7, 2003;