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B-286201.6 1 (2001-08-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamly0001 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: Rockwell Electronic Commerce Corporation File: B-286201.6 Date: August 30, 2001 Gerard F. Doyle, Esq., and Ron R. Hutchinson, Esq., Doyle & Bachman, for the protester. Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., and Holly Emrick Svetz, Esq., Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, for MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc., the intervenor. Seth Binstock, Esq., and Jonathan Cantor, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's corrective action in response to a General Accounting Office decision sustaining earlier protest is sustained where the agency reopened discussions and requested proposal revisions from only one offeror in the competitive range, and where the agency's corrective action did not resolve the improprieties that were the basis for the prior decision. DECISION Rockwell Electronic Commerce Corporation protests the Social Security Administration's (SSA) implementation of our recommendation in Rockwell Elec. Commerce Corp., B-286201 et al., Dec. 14, 2000, 2001 CPD 65, aff'd, Social Sec. Admin.; MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc.-Recon., B-286201.4, B-286201.5, Apr. 19, 2001, 2001 CPD . In that decision, we sustained Rockwell's protest of an award to MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA RFP-00-3929, issued by SSA for network-based telephone services to handle the agency's toll free call traffic from the FTS 2001 network, as well as the agency's associated administrative call traffic. We sustain the protest.

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