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B-274668 1 (1996-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaemu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller 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: Ericsson, Inc. File: B-274668; B-274668.2 Date: December 23, 1996 John S. Pachter, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Christina M. Pirrello, Esq., Smith, Pachter, McWhorter, & D'Ambrosio, for the protester. David B. Apatoff, Esq., Arnold & Porter, for Motorola, Inc., an intervenor. Maj. Michael J. O'Farrell, Jr., Department of the Army, 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 rejection of proposal as unacceptable is denied where agency reasonably determined that proposed digital commercial land mobile radio system did not comply with mandatory solicitation requirements for handheld radios to operate at a UHF frequency range of 403-470 MHz and for the digital interface unit to store up to eight encryption keys; protester's interpretation of specifications as permitting gaps in the required frequency range and only requiring that the interface unit be capable of future upgrade to an eight encryption key storage capacity was unreasonable. DECISION Ericsson, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to Motorola, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAJB03-96-R-0036, for replacement of the radio network currently used by the Eighth United States Army, Eighth Military Police Brigade (8th MP). Ericsson argues that the Army improperly rejected its lower-priced proposal as technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. The solicitation contemplated award--to the low, technically acceptable offeror--of a fixed-price contract to provide a new digital commercial land mobile radio system (CLMRS) that would be compliant with frequency changes mandated by the Republic of Korea effective January 1, 1997. The solicitation generally provided that the 8th MP requires a handheld radio network with repeater system capable of operating in the analog, digital unencrypted and digital encrypted modes and 1049117

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