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B-280431 1 (1998-09-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahvm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: I.T.S. Corporation File: B-280431 Date: September 29, 1998 Gerald N. Gordon, Esq., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, for the protester. John W. Huckle, Esq., and Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency conducted prejudicially unequal discussions by asking some offerors--but not protester--questions related to the sufficiency of their proposed staffing levels during both rounds of discussions and asking the protester a similar question during the second round of discussions only is denied where the awardee was in the same position as the protester going into the second round of discussions, and where the key information supplied to all offerors did not come until that second round of discussions. DECISION I.T.S. Corporation protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range and the subsequent award of a contract to MCA Engineers, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. F04684-98-R-0003, issued by the Department of the Air Force to obtain technical support for computer services at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. I.T.S. contends that the Air Force conducted prejudicially unequal and misleading discussions with the firm. We deny the protest. The Air Force issued this solicitation on February 2, 1998, to obtain such services as the installation, operation, maintenance, programming, and management of computer resources; computer security; and life-cycle acquisition management. RFP § C-1, 1.1. The solicitation, set aside for small businesses, anticipated the award of a contract with fixed-price, labor hour, and cost-reimbursement line items to be performed over a 4-month base period, with up to four 1-year option periods. RFP §§ L-65C, F-12.

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