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A G A O Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: Relm Wireless Corporation
File: B-298715
Date: December 4, 2006
William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., Peter A. Riesen, Esq., and Keir
X. Bancroft, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester.
Brian E. Toland, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency improperly obtained products outside scope of multiple-award
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts is denied where the product was
reasonably encompassed by the contracts at issue.
DECISION
Relm Wireless Corporation protests the decision of U.S. Army
Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) to issue a solicitation
contemplating the award of a task order under a multiple-award,
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) task order contract to obtain
commercial Land Mobile Radio (LMR) equipment for tactical, intra-squad
communications. Relm maintains that this tactical radio is outside the scope of the
ID/IQ contracts.
We deny the protest.
In 2001, the Department of the Army issued a solicitation contemplating the award of
multiple ID/IQ contracts for base radio systems (BRS). Request for Proposals (RFP)
No. DAAB07-01-R-H801. Under the statement of work, the solicitation described the
scope of the contracts as follows:
1.2. Scope. The BRS program will offer commercially available
radio technology products and services. These will allow
customers to create a uniquely tailored solution to meet their LMR
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