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B-271495 1 (1996-04-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeer0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Sprint Communications Company, L.P. File: B-271495 Date: April 26, 1996 David S. Cohen, Esq., Carrie B. Mann, Esq., and G. Brent Connor, Esq., Cohen & White, for the protester. Thomas C. Papson, Esq., and David Kasanow, Esq., McKenna & Cuneo, for AT&T Communications, Inc., an intervenor. George N. Barclay, Esq., and Michael J. Ettner, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against reallocation of telephone service requirements between FTS 2000 contractors is dismissed where reallocation process was provided for under the FTS 2000 contracts and is a matter of contract administration; General Accounting Office generally does not exercise jurisdiction to review matters of contract administration, which are within the discretion of the contracting agency and for review by a cognizant board of contract appeals or the Court of Federal Claims. DECISION Sprint Communications Company, L.P. protests the General Services Administration's (GSA) determination to reallocate 40 percent of Sprint's share of the FTS 2000 contract requirements to AT&T in the Year 7 Price Redetermination/Service Reallocation (PR/SR). Sprint challenges the conduct of the PR/SR process and the evaluation of proposals. We dismiss the protest. In 1987, GSA issued solicitation No. KET-JW-87-02, requesting proposals to furnish long-distance telecommunications services to federal agencies. As amended, the solicitation contemplated the award of two 10-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts--one for Network A for 60 percent of the requirement (with a guaranteed minimum of $270 million) and another for Network B for 40 percent (with a guaranteed minimum of $180 million). The solicitation divided the 10-year contract term into three periods--an initial 4-year period, followed by two successive 3-year periods--and provided GSA with the right to request revised prices and 904424

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