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B-275717.2 1 (1997-04-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafvg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: Severn Companies, Inc. File: B-275717.2 Date: April 28, 1997 William M. Rosen, Esq., Kendrick C. Fong, Esq., and Robert J. Moss, Esq., Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, for the protesters. Jay P. Urwitz, Esq., Barry J. Hurewitz, Esq., and James L. Quarles, Esq., Hale and Dorr, for LA Systems, an intervenor. Robert Goff, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against termination of delivery order issued against protester's General Services Administration, Federal Supply Schedule contract for direct access computer storage device is denied where protester's response to request for pricing (RFPr) indicated noncompliance with RFPr's specifications. DECISION Severn Companies, Inc. protests the action of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO), in terminating for the convenience of the government the delivery order (DCA200- 97-F-0991) issued to Severn against its General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract under a request for pricing (RFPr) for a direct access storage device (DASD) system for the DISA Continuity of Operations and Test Facility (DCTF) at Slidell, Louisiana (DCTF-Slidell). DISA terminated the delivery order after concluding, in response to a protest filed by LA Systems, that the RFPr was ambiguous. We deny the protest. The RFPr, as amended, requested pricing for items available on GSA schedules, existing indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts, or other agency contracts to which DITCO is an authorized ordering activity. Specifically, the RFPr required offerors to quote a price for one terabyte (TB) of redundant array of inexpensive disk (RAID) storage to support IBM multiple virtual storage (MVS) operating system computers and one TB of RAID to support UNIX operating system computers, in either a single box or multiple box solution. The specifications required that the

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