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B-292298,B-292298.2,B-292298.3 1 (2003-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im 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: GTSI Corp. File: B-292298; B-292298.2; B-292298.3 Date: August 14, 2003 John J. Fausti, Esq., Monica C. Parchment, Esq., and Jennifer M. Morrison, Esq., John J. Fausti & Associates, for the protester. Kelley P. Doran, Esq., William A. Shook, Esq., and Michael D. Garson, Esq., Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, for Dell Marketing, L.P., an intervenor. James H. Haag, Esq., Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and Jerold D. Cohen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly accepted quotation that did not unambiguously indicate compliance with mandatory computer monitor viewing area requirement, but instead could reasonably be interpreted as indicating noncompliance, and then improperly modified the blanket purchasing agreement shortly after award to correct ambiguity, is denied where there is no basis for concluding that the agency's actions prejudiced protester; protester has not alleged, nor is there any basis for concluding, that it would have lowered its price sufficiently to displace awardee as the low-priced vendor. DECISION GTSI Corp. protests the Department of the Navy, Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command's (SPAWAR), award of a blanket purchasing agreement (BPA) to Dell Marketing, L.P., under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N00039-02-Q-0016, for computers, laptops and peripherals. GTSI asserts that Dell's quotation failed to comply with the specifications in the RFQ. We deny the protest. The RFQ contemplated award of a BPA for the procurement of commercial off-the-shelf computers, laptops and peripherals in support of shipboard command, control, communications, computers and intelligence networks. All items offered by a vendor were required to be on that vendor's General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract. The required equipment

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