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B-299091.3 1 (2008-03-28)

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         G    A     0Comptroller General
KA     Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                     of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548


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         Decision


         Matter  of: AdaRose, Inc.

         File:       B-299091.3

         Date:       March 28, 2008

         George Holt for the protester.
         Vera Meza, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
         Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO,  participated in the preperation of this decision.
         DIGEST

         Under solicitation for armaments software engineering support, requirement that
         offerors have knowledge of and experience with agency software design processes is
         not unduly restrictive of competition where the record shows that the requirement is
         reasonably necessary to meet the agency's needs.
         DECISION

         AdaRose, Inc. protests the decision of the Department of the Army Joint Armaments
         Contracting Center to amend request for proposals (RFP) No. W15QKN-05-R-0229,
         for armaments software engineering center support, to enhance certain knowledge
         and experience requirements. AdaRose alleges that the enhanced knowledge and
         experience requirements unduly restrict competition. AdaRose also argues the
         agency's technical rating of its original proposal, a copy of which was provided by
         the agency as an aid in preparing a revised proposal, in fact was an improper
         evaluation of its original proposal against the amended solicitation.

         We  deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         The protest concerns the agency's ongoing attempt to acquire indefinite-
         delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for various software engineering,
         infrastructure, technologies, and equipment support requirements. The RFP
         represents the first time that ten functional areas representing various weapons

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