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1229711
Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
A protected decision was issued on the date below
and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This
version has been redacted or approved by the parties
involved for public release.
Matter of: Sprint Communications Corporation, L.P.
File: B-271035; B-271035.2
Date: June 10, 1996
Anthony L. Cogswell, Esq., and Ronald L. Fouse, Esq., for the protester.
Rand L. Allen, Esq., and David A. Vogel, Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding, for
[REDACTED], an intervenor.
George M. Kingsley, Esq., Madeline Shay, Esq., and Joseph Cox, Esq., for the
agency.
C. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging agency's refusal to grant request for change to benchmark
script (to allow protester to defer until after award demonstration of its ability to
switch data display from full screen to teletype format without leaving the
application) is denied since waiver of the type protester requests would be
inconsistent with the purpose of the benchmark--to require offerors to demonstrate,
before award, their capability to meet mandatory solicitation requirements.
2. Protest that requirement for offeror to demonstrate dual mode emulation during
benchmark is unduly restrictive of competition because agency has no valid
requirement for dual mode emulation is untimely where the requirement was stated
in the solicitation but protest was not filed until well after time set for receipt of
initial proposals.
3. Protest that agency improperly waived for one offeror a mandatory solicitation
requirement--for use of a commercial operating system--is denied where record
shows that the offeror's proposed operating system is available commercially.
DECISION
Sprint Communications Company, L.P. protests the agency's actions under request
for proposals (RFP) No. DACW31-94-R-0145, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers for information processing services. Sprint contends that the Army
improperly and unreasonably rejected its request for modification of a benchmark](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptaecj0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)