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B-291418,B-291418.2,B-291418.4,B-291418.5,B-291418.6 1 (2003-01-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacydr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General A- Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: MCI WorldCom Deutschland GmbH File: B-291418; B-291418.2; B-291418.4; B-291418.5; B-291418.6 Date: January 2, 2003 Thomas C. Wheeler, Esq., and David E. Fletcher, Esq., Piper Rudnick, and Robert Rodrigues, Esq., WorldCom, Inc., for the protester. Stephanie A. Kreis, Esq., and JoAnn W. Melesky, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's inclusion of a clause in solicitations for telecommunication circuits between various United States military installations located in European nations that are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), requiring that telecommunication providers (TP) be accredited by the National Long Lines Agency (NALLA) of the NATO nation or nations where the military installations are located, is unobjectionable, where the record establishes that the provision of the services by NALLA-accredited TPs is reasonably related to the agency's needs. DECISION MCI WorldCom Deutschland GmbH protests the terms of numerous solicitations issued by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO)-- Europe, Defense Information Systems Agency, for telecommunication circuits between various United States military installations located in European nations that are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).' The protester argues that a standard provision included in the solicitations, requiring that contractors be accredited by the National Long Lines Agency (NALLA) of the NATO 1 The solicitations for the telecommunication circuits protested by WorldCom that are the subject of this decision involve Alliance Long Lines Activity (ALLA) circuit Nos. 130499, 130500, 130501, 262706, 262705, 264469, 264448, 264465, 264467, 264466, 264470, 262708, 262709, 268890, 262824, 262825, and 262822.

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