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B-285176.4 1 (2001-01-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamld0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: ITT Federal Systems International Corporation File: B-285176.4; B-285176.5 Date: January 9, 2001 C. Stanley Dees, Esq., Alison L. Doyle, Esq., and Suzette W. Derrevere, Esq., McKenna & Cuneo, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq. and John J. O'Brien, Esq., Cohen Mohr, and George J. Affe, Esq., for Sprint Communications Co., L.P., an intervenor. William Mayers, Esq., and Capt. Stephanie D. Hillmon, Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions is denied where the discussions led the protester into the areas of its proposal that required amplification and revision. 2. Agency reasonably evaluated the protester's proposal for telecommunications services in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation factors. 3. Price evaluation under solicitation for fixed-price telecommunications contract, which compared the awardee's price to the others received, was unobjectionable. DECISION ITT Federal Systems International Corporation protests the award of a contract to Sprint Communications Co., L.P. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DCA400-00- R-0003, issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency, Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization-Europe (DITCO), for telecommunication services. ITT challenges the conduct of discussions, and the evaluation of ITT's technical proposal and Sprint's price proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on November 18, 1999, sought to procure communications services, including equipment, voice and data for United States forces in Hungary, Bosnia-

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