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B-283693 1 (1999-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajnc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: SBC Federal Systems File: B-283693; B-283693.2 Date: December 27, 1999 James J. Regan, Esq., John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., and Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for the protester. Judith Ward Mattox, Esq., for TennMark Telecommunications, Inc., an intervenor. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., and Dennis Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, 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 Although contracting agency may have improperly performed a price/technical tradeoff between proposals in violation of the solicitation's evaluation scheme, the protester was not prejudiced by the improper tradeoff decision where the record shows that agency reasonably concluded that protester's proposal was technically unacceptable. DECISION SBC Federal Systems protests the issuance of a task order to TennMark Telecommunications, Inc. by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), made pursuant to a task order proposal request, No. VHA-014(VISN 18), issued to all Nortel Authorized General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule representatives listed on GSA Schedule No. GS-35F-1130D. The agency is purchasing replacement telephone systems for VA Medical Centers in Big Spring, Texas, and Prescott, Arizona. SBC argues that the agency improperly conducted a price/technical tradeoff between its and Tennmark's proposals in violation of the task order request's stated evaluation scheme. We deny the protest. As discussed in greater detail below, this protest turns ultimately on prejudice. The solicitation here did not anticipate an evaluation of the relative technical merits of the systems offered, as the VA is purchasing commercially-available Nortel telephone

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