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B-279892 1 (1998-07-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahtz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Cache Box, Inc. File: B-279892 Date: July 29, 1998 Steven L. Briggerman, Esq., Grace Bateman, Esq., and Adria Benner, Esq., Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, for the protester. John E. Lariccia, Esq., Department of the Air Force, 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 Agency properly eliminated proposal from competitive range as technically unacceptable where it did not include sufficiently detailed information to establish that offered reservations management software will meet the solicitation requirements, and instead included conflicting provisions which called general offer of compliance into question, such that the proposal was at best ambiguous. DECISION Cache Box, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. F41691-97-R0016, issued by the Department of the Air Force for reservations management software. Cache Box challenges the agency's determination that its proposal was technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation provided for award of a fixed-price requirements contract to furnish commercially available software to control reservations at approximately 250 Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps lodging facilities world-wide. The overall required system was comprised of three components: (1) a property management system that enables lodging personnel to create and cancel reservations, check guests in or out, create accounting entries and reports, and create other management reports; (2) a web reservation module that enables travelers to directly access the property management system at a specific location and make reservations; and (3) corporate headquarters systems that enable service

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