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B-276040 1 (1997-05-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafxa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Hughes Space and Communications Company File: B-276040 Date: May 2, 1997 Michael A. Hordell, Esq., and Laura L. Hoffman, Esq., Gadsby & Hannah, for the protester. Kenneth M. Bruntel, Esq., Paul Shnitzer, Esq., and John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., Crowell & Moring, for COMSAT RSI, Inc., the intervenor. Douglas G. White, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contract modification to a satellite communications services contract which added system preemptible satellite transponder leases to the contract, which previously only specified non-preemptible transponder leases, did not exceed the scope of the contract, as originally awarded, because the fundamental nature and purpose of the contract was not changed. DECISION Hughes Space and Communications Company protests the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) modification of contract No. DCA200-95-D-0079 (called the Commercial Satellite Communication Initiative (CSCI) contract) with COMSAT RSI, Inc. for satellite communications services. Hughes argues that the modification to provide satellite transponder services for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) exceeds the scope of the CSCI contract and is an improper sole- source award. We deny the protest. The CSCI contract, which DISA competitively awarded to COMSAT on July 18, 1995, provides, among other things, for the lease of a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 45 satellite transponders on an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) basis.1 1A transponder is an electronic device based upon a satellite in geosynchronous orbit above the earth that receives electronic signals from a point on the ground and relays those signals back to earth. Typically, satellite transponders receive very ''narrow signals and relay back to earth large footprint signals covering a large geographic area.

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