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B-284943 1 (2000-06-09)

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 __Comptroller General
                                                                of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter of: Sales Resources Consultants, Inc.

         File:      B-284943; B-284943.2

         Date:      June 9, 2000


         Peter A. Cerick, Esq., for the protester.
         Willliam M. Rosen, Esq., for Intellisys Technology Corporation, an intervenor.
         David A. Ingold, Esq., Internal Revenue Service, 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

         1. In deciding whether to place an order for brand name software under a Federal
         Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, agency is not required to first consider the
         unsolicited offer of an alternate software product from a vendor that does not have
         an FSS contract.

         2. A protester that does not have a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is not an
         interested party to challenge an agency's determination as to its minimum needs and
         its decision to conduct a limited competition among FSS vendors for a particular
         brand name software.
         DECISION

         Sales Resources Consultants, Inc. (SRC) protests the issuance of an order to
         Beyond.com and Intellisys Technology Corporation (ITC) by the Internal Revenue
         Service (IRS) under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program for electronic
         delivery of various Microsoft Corporation software. SRC, which does not have an
         FSS contract, complains that the IRS refused to consider SRC's unsolicited offer to
         provide Lotus SmartSuite software' to satisfy the agency's needs for office
         applications software.



         'Lotus SmartSuite bundles word processing, spreadsheet, database, time
         management, and other office applications. See <www.lotus.com>.

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