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B-261476.3 1 (1995-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptacce0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ' ITV' 10131219 Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision REDACTED DECISION A poteteddeisin ws isud o th dae elow and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: Mnemonics, Inc. File: B-261476.3 Date: November 14, 1995 John R. Kancilia, Esq., Landman, O'Brien, Riemenschneider & Kancilia, for the protester. Stuart B. Nibley, Esq., Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, for E-Systems, Inc., an interested party. Craig E. Hodge, Esq., and Gary Theodore, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Although the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 mandates that contracting agencies obtain full and open competition in their procurements through the use of competitive procedures, the proposed sole source award of a contract under 10 U.S.C. § 2304(c)(1) is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that only one source could supply the critically required items within the time constraints of the procurement. DECISION Mnemonics, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's proposed sole source award to E-Systems, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAB07-95-R-S999, for three-channel Joint Tactical Terminal (JTT) radio equipment which transmits intelligence information by means of satellites and airborne relays to combatants on the ground.1 Mnemonics essentially contends that the agency improperly 1The JTT was formerly known as the Commanders Tactical Terminal (CTT) which was originally a single channel model. The two items principally at issue here are the JTT/H3 device (three channel receiver and one channel transmitter) and the JTT/H-R3 (three channel receiver). The CTT and JTT equipment must interface with (that is, receive data from and/or transmit data to) the Tactical Reconnaissance Intelligence Exchange System (TRIXS) as well as several other military communications networks.

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