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B-292242 1 (2003-08-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyks0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im AllllL 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: Americom Government Services, Inc. File: B-292242 Date: August 1, 2003 David W. Burgett, Esq., Peter A. Rohrbach, Esq., Karis A. Hastings, Esq., and Gary J. Campbell, Esq., Hogan & Hartson, and Nancy J. Eskenazi, Esq., and Mara L. Yoelson, Esq., SES Americom Inc., for the protester. Stephanie A. Kreis, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably eliminated from competitive range proposal that failed to comply with material technical requirements in solicitation; contrary to protester's contention, agency was not required to augment the proposal by considering information contained in competitors' proposals, or to conduct discussions to enable offeror to cure evaluated deficiencies. DECISION Americom Government Services, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. DCA500-03-R-0001, issued by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) for the acquisition of a space segment for the Alaskan National Airspace System Interfacility Communications System (ANICS), a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) backbone communications system consisting of satellite earth stations, transmission channels, and services for communications in Alaska and Seattle, Washington. Americom contends that one of the proposal alternatives that it offered easily could 'The agency explains that the ANICS network, the FAA's primary communications network in these areas, is used for almost all of FAA's operational capabilities including those associated with air traffic control, and that its reliability is critical to air traffic safety throughout the area. The FAA owns, operates and maintains the ANICS network and only the space segment portion of the network that is the subject of this procurement is commercially leased. Agency Report (AR) at 2.

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