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B-276064 1 (1997-05-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafxe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Analytical & Research Technology, Inc. File: B-276064 Date: May 7, 1997 Douglas L. Patin, Esq., Spriggs & Hollingsworth, for the protester. Maj. Michael O'Farrell, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine Riback, Esq. and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency did not conduct misleading discussions where the protester unreasonably interpreted agency's explanation regarding staffing requirements as permitting an approach that was inconsistent with the solicitation requirements. DECISION Analytical & Research Technology, Inc. (ART) protests the Department of the Army's proposed award of a contract to J.G. Van Dyke & Associates, Inc. to provide computer network integration and automated data processing (ADP) operations support for the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAHC90-95-R-0036. ART contends that the Army conducted misleading discussions with ART. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplates the award of a labor hours contract for a base year with four 1-year option periods to provide the NGIC with routine ADP technical assistance and hardware maintenance, installation and deinstallation of ADP support. The RFP provided that offerors were permitted to propose any mix of labor categories to perform the required tasks provided that the proposed individuals have the requisite years of experience in each of the skill areas listed below for the labor category for which they are proposed. (Emphasis added.) The skill areas were as follows:

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