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B-285065 1 (2000-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalck0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E 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: Biospherics, Inc. File: B-285065 Date: July 13, 2000 Eric J. Marcotte, Esq., Paul S. Ebert, Esq., and Adam B. Walker, Esq., Winston & Strawn, for the protester. Gilbert J. Ginsburg, Esq., and Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., and Daniel B. Abrahams, Esq., Epstein, Becker and Green, for Aspen Systems Corporation, an interested party. Charles Sides, Esq., and Thedlus L. Thompson, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency conducted inadequate and prejudicially unequal discussions as between the two offerors in the competitive range is denied where the record shows that, with respect to the item at issue in the protest, the two proposals did not contain comparable deficiencies requiring comparable discussions, and the agency provided offerors an equal opportunity to revise their proposals while properly tailoring their discussions to each offer. DECISION Biospherics, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Aspen Systems Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. TQD-RC-98-0002, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to acquire the services necessary to manage and operate GSA's Federal Information Center (FIC). Biospherics primarily contends that GSA conducted inadequate and prejudicially unequal discussions. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The FIC is a single point of contact for people with questions about federal agencies, programs, and services. It currently responds to about 2 million calls annually, with the most frequent public inquiries concerning workplace issues, state government

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