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B-291728,B-291728.2 1 (2003-03-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacygr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability 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: Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc. File: B-291728; B-291728.2 Date: March 5, 2003 James S. Phillips, Esq., Barbara S. Kinosky, Esq., James S. DelSordo, Esq., George Darby, Esq., and Lorie Grotos, Esq., Centre Law Group, for the protester. Richard J. Vacura, Esq., Holly Emrick Svetz, Esq., and John F. Cox III., Esq., Morrison & Foerster, for Mackay Communications, an intervenor. Jeffrey A. Mansfield, Esq., and Deana Jaeger, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably rejected as technically unacceptable proposed high performance modem for use with satellite terminals on board ships, where: (1) agency reasonably interpreted proposal as requiring a version of the satellite terminal software that was not present on 95 percent of Navy ships, the solicitation stated that the government would not furnish the software, the record indicates that the protester was aware that it could not rely on the software being present, and protester did not offer to furnish the software itself, and (2) protester included in its final proposal revision an inadequately explained change in the description of its technical approach, such that it was not clear that the proposed system provided the required full functionality. DECISION Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc. (ICTI) protests the Department of the Navy's rejection of its proposal as technically unacceptable under request for proposals (RFP) No. N66001-02-R-5999, for interoperable high performance modems and related interface equipment. ICTI primarily challenges the technical evaluation. We deny the protest.

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