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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision
Matter of: EMC Corporation
File: B-277133
Date: September 4, 1997
Carolyn G. Hyde for the protester.
Lynn W. Flanagan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency.
David Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency improperly issued delivery order for noncompliant direct access
storage devices (DASD) system is denied where, although compliance with stated
storage capacity and access time requirements could only be determined with
certainty once DASD system was installed and used in the processing of the
agency's particular data mix, agency reasonably determined that quoted system
complied with the requirements.
DECISION
EMC Corporation protests the issuance of a delivery order to International Business
Machines Corporation (IBM) against its General Services Administration (GSA)
Federal Supply Schedule contract. The purchase order was issued on the basis of
responses received to request for quotations (RFQ) No. 00-97-1012, issued by the
Department of Agriculture for direct access storage devices (DASD) for the agency's
National Information Technology Center (NITC). EMC asserts that IBM's proposed
DASD system does not satisfy two salient characteristics set forth in the
solicitation.
We deny the protest.
The RFQ requested pricing for a DASD system, comprised of items available on
GSA schedules, which would provide storage with a minimum guaranteed capacity
of 720 gigabytes (GB) of data and an [a]verage response time of 10 ms
[milliseconds] or less for any data set under all conditions (e.g., during data
recovery, volume rebuild or reconstruction). As noted by Agriculture prior to
closing, however, respondents were not required to offer 720 GB of actual, physical
storage, but instead could meet the requirement with a virtual storage system that
used data compression techniques that permitted 720 GB of data to be stored in a
system of lesser physical capacity. Specifically, the agency was asked:](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptagaz0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)