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B-404479.2 1 (2011-04-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbua0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: CWTSatoTravel File: B-404479.2 Date: April 22, 2011 Lars E. Anderson, Esq., Maria A. del-Cerro, Esq., and Justin J. Wortman, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Virginia Grebasch, Esq., for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that solicitation seeking fixed prices for electronic travel management service imposes excessive risk on offerors is denied where solicitation does not have an unlimited scope of work and provides sufficient information on which offerors can base their prices. 2. Protest that solicitation requirements for updates to electronic travel management system in response to changes in pertinent federal regulations and policy are unduly restrictive is denied where agency establishes that requirements are reasonably related to agency's needs. 3. Protest that agency improperly conducted procurement using commercial item procedures and policies is denied where protester does not show that use of those procedures and policies will cause it competitive prejudice. 4. Protest that certain terms of solicitation do not clearly communicate whether objectives are optional or required--rendering solicitation ambiguous--is sustained; remaining challenges to terms of solicitation are denied where those terms were not susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, and where solicitation contained sufficient information to allow offerors to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis. DECISION CW Government Travel, Inc., d/b/a CWTSatoTravel, of Arlington, Virginia, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. QMAD-JM-100001-N, issued by the

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