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B-289331 1 (2002-01-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaocq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Engineering & Professional Services, Inc. File: B-289331 Date: January 28, 2002 Francesco A. Musorrafiti for the protester. Kevin C. Dwyer, Esq., David A. Churchill, Esq., and Nathan C. Guerrero, Esq., Jenner & Block, for General Dynamics Communications Systems, an intervenor. Maj. Edward Beauchamp, and Gary Theodore, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contract modification resulting from an engineering change proposal (ECP) to provide technologically advanced ruggedized handheld computers is not beyond the scope of the basic contract where the original request for proposals (RFP) called for a wide array of hardware and software; the RFP contemplated that the successful contractor would use the ECP process to incorporate technological advances to the required products; and the modification does not change the fundamental nature and purpose of the underlying contract. DECISION Engineering & Professional Services, Inc. (EPS) protests the issuance by the Army's Communications-Engineering Command (CECOM) of modification No. P00204 to contract No. DAAB07-94-C-N853 (hereinafter referred to as contract No. N853). The modification is to acquire a quantity of ruggedized handheld computers (RHC). We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In 1995, CECOM awarded a 10-year requirements contract to GTE Government Systems Corporation to support the Army's Common Hardware Software-2 (CHS-2)

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