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B-293093 1 (2004-02-02)

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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: Cerner Corporation

          File:        B-293093; B-293093.2

          Date:        February 2, 2004

          Stephen S. Kaye, Esq., Thomas A. Schweich, Esq., and William E. Olson, Esq., Bryan
          Cave, for the protester.
          Daniel D. Dinur, Esq., Dinur & Associates, for Mobiam Solutions, Inc., an intervenor.
          D.A. Ridgely, Esq., and Blane B. Lewis, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
          Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Agency properly accepted awardee's software as meeting the solicitation
          requirement for a commercial, off-the-shelf item where the firm proposed software
          that is currently being sold and used under other commercial contracts.

          2. Where a solicitation allows for alternative approaches to meeting performance
          requirements, the agency is not required to advise a technically acceptable offeror
          during discussions that it considers another approach to be superior to that
          proposed by the offeror.

          3. Protest that evaluation and source selection decision were flawed is denied where
          the record shows that the evaluation and source selection were reasonable and
          consistent with the evaluation factors.
          DECISION

          Cerner Corporation protests the award of a contract to Mobiam Solutions, Inc. under
          request for proposals (RFP) No. DASWO1-03-R-0011, issued by the Defense
          Contracting Command-Washington for commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) software to
          satisfy a requirement for an enterprise-wide scheduling and registration system
          (EWS-R).

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