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B-288413.6 1 (2002-06-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaobg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability 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: Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. File: B-288413.6; B-288413.10 Date: June 17, 2002 John G. Horan, Esq., Jason A. Carey, Esq., and Stanton D. Anderson, Esq., McDermottt, Will & Emery, for the protester. Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., and David E. Fletcher, Esq., Piper Rudnick, for MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc., the intervenor. William L. Mayers, Esq., Department of Defense, 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 Agency reasonably determined that the protester was nonresponsible, even though the agency had determined the firm to be responsible before it filed for bankruptcy, where the updated pre-award survey, on which the contracting officer relied in making her nonresponsibility determination, included a detailed financial analysis reasonably concluding that the firm's poor financial condition made the firm a high financial risk and that the bankruptcy action created unacceptable contract performance risks. DECISION Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. protests an award to MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DCA200-01-R-5008, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO), for the Defense Research Engineering Network (DREN).' Global Crossing challenges the agency's determination that it is not a responsible prospective contractor. 1 The DREN is a telecommunications network that enables over 6,000 scientists and engineers at laboratories, test centers, universities and industry sites throughout the United States to use the computer resources of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office.

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