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B-298277 1 (2006-08-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczot0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General L LA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been *eiinapproved for public release. D e c i s i o n ----------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: MadahCom, Inc. File: B-298277 Date: August 7, 2006 Joel Singer, Esq., Sidley Austin LLP, for the protester. Rod McCracken, Esq., and Amy Pereira, Esq., Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Solicitation requirements requiring compliance with specific radio frequency standard and minimum transmission range for equipment are unduly restrictive of competition where agency fails to provide reasonable basis for their inclusion in the solicitation. DECISION MadahCom, Inc. protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W912GB-06- R-0019, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for provision and installation of mass notification systems (MNSes). The protester contends that various technical requirements of the RFP are unduly restrictive of competition because they are not reasonably related to the agency's needs for an MNS. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND An MNS is a system designed to transmit alert messages and related information to personnel in or near buildings during emergency situations. An MNS can be provided for a single building or for multiple buildings in, for example, a military base-wide system. Alert messages are triggered by an individual user authorized to use the MNS. In the case of a single-building MNS, the user triggers an alert message through the autonomous control unit (ACU) in the building. In the case of a base- wide MNS, the user triggers an alert message from the primary control center for the base, which in turns sends the alert message to the ACU in each building. Once an

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