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B-262003.2 1 (1996-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadrp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision REDACTED DECISION A poteteddeisin ws isud o th dae elow and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: Sprint Communications Company, L.P. File: B-262003.2 Date: January 25, 1996 David S. Cohen, Esq., Carrie B. Mann, Esq., Cohen & White; and George Affe, Esq., Ronald Fouse, Esq., and Anthony Cogswell, Esq., Sprint Communications Company, L.P., for the protester. Francis J. O'Toole, Esq., Robert J. Conlan, Jr., Esq., Joseph C. Port, Jr., Esq., and Michael L. Shore, Esq., Sidley & Austin; and Nathaniel Friends, Esq., and Steven W. DeGeorge, Esq., AT&T Corporation, for AT&T Corporation, an interested party. Carl Wayne Smith, Esq., and H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that a sole source award of a 15-month bridge contract to AT&T for continued provision of the Department of Defense's telecommunications system used in support of command, control, communication and intelligence requirements until completion of a pending competition is improper is denied where the record shows that the agency: (1) properly justified and published its intent to award an interim sole source contract; (2) planned to hold a competition for these services by the end of AT&T's existing contract, but was unable to complete the planning required to do so; and (3) has reasonably concluded that while other offerors might perform portions of the work included in the interim contract, the agency's needs would be best served by avoiding further piecemeal competitions and continuing its plans to competitively award several contracts designed to achieve significant economies of scale. DECISION Sprint Communications Company, L.P. protests the decision of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to award a sole source contract to AT&T Corporation to bridge the gap between the expiration of AT&T's Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network (DCTN) contract, and the expected award of several competitive procurements collectively referred to as the Defense Information System Network (DISN) contracts. Sprint argues that the sole source 251130

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