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B-283900 1 (2000-01-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakyt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Williams Communications Solutions, LLC File: B-283900 Date: January 18, 2000 Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., and Brian R. Kennedy, Esq., Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe, for the protester. Judith Ward Mattox, Esq., for TennMark Telecommunications, Inc., an intervenor. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., and Dennis Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Robert C. Arsenoff, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest against agency determination that protester's proposal was technically noncompliant is denied where it is based on protester's unreasonable interpretation of solicitation requirements. 2. Protest alleging that discussions were not meaningful is denied where record reflects that agency led protester into the area of its proposal in need of revision. DECISION Williams Communications Solutions, LLC protests the issuance of a task order to TennMark Telecommunications, Inc. by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), under task order proposal request No. VHA-020(642), issued to all Nortel Authorized General Services Administration (GSA) schedule representatives listed on GSA schedule No. GS-35F-1130D. The task order is for the upgrade of a telephone system at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. Williams argues that its proposal was improperly determined to be technically unacceptable, that the VA failed to conduct meaningful discussions, and that the VA improperly waived certain material requirements for the benefit of the awardee. We deny the protest. The proposal request was released on July 30, 1999, as a competitive Nortel GSA schedule procurement. Paragraph 2.17 of the request provided that the government would award a task order to the offeror whose offer conforming to the requirements

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