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B-400651.2 1 (2009-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadasu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: iL G A O Comptroller General Accuntabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: SMARTnet, Inc. File: B-400651.2 Date: January 27, 2009 Thomas David, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP, for the protester. Captain Robert T. Wu, Department of the Army, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against solicitation requirement that telecommunications equipment be certified by the Joint Interoperability Test Command at the time of submission of quotations is sustained where the record does not establish that the requirement for such certification at the time of quotation submission is necessary to meet the agency's needs. DECISION SMARTnet, Inc., of Frederick, Maryland, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ286120, issued by the Department of the Army, Medical Research Acquisition Activity, for communications equipment for the agency's Defense Medical Logistics Center (DMLC) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Specifically, SMARTnet objects to the requirement that the equipment be Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certified and that vendors satisfy this requirement at the time of quotation submission. 'JITC is part of the Department of Defense's (DOD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and provides testing and certification of information technology systems/equipment. See www.disa.mil/services/index.html?panel=9#A Services. JITC certification is intended to ensure that a system meets the joint interoperability requirements of its users, such that the system can effectively exchange all required information with all pertinent systems. See Agency Report (AR), Tab 11, Joint Interoperability certification, DEFENSE AT&L (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) Magazine, Mar./Apr. 2006, at 1.

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