Request for Potential Offerors to Provide Capability Statements, Address Requirements Bundling Intended to Inform Agency Decision Making; GAO B-414587, General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s award of a sole-source contract is dismissed, where the agency proposes to seek capability statements from responsible sources in order to determine whether competition is necessary; and challenge to this corrective action is dismissed, where the agency’s corrective action did not seek to shift the burden of justifying its sole-source and bundling decisions by requiring contractors to convince the agency that competition is necessary, but rather sought to gather information from responsible sources in order to inform and assist the agency in making its procurement decision.