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B-295455.3 1 (2005-08-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaque0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: OTI America, Inc. File: B-295455.3; B-295455.4 Date: August 10, 2005 William M. Weisberg, Esq., and Jeffrey H. Francis, Esq., Sullivan & Worcester LLP, for the protester. Jennifer R. Seifert, Esq., U.S. Government Printing Office, 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 1. Where agency uses contract options under parallel contracts to include or exclude contractors from continuing consideration for the development and production of electronic passport covers, the agency is conducting a limited competition between the multiple contractors, so that a protest of the agency's determination to eliminate a firm from the competition is within GAO's jurisdiction. 2. Agency has a reasonable basis to eliminate protester from competition where the electronic passport covers it delivered to the agency for testing did not meet material contract requirements. DECISION OTI America, Inc. protests agency action under request for proposals (RFP)/contract No. EP-2004, issued by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) for electronic passport book covers and related materials. OTI protests its elimination from a limited competition that the agency has been conducting among the firms that previously had been awarded contracts. We deny the protest. The Department of State (DOS), in cooperation with the GPO and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), intends to issue a new type of passport to enhance the security of passports and to facilitate movement of travelers at ports of entry. The new electronic passport cover will contain an embedded contactless integrated circuit (IC) that will electronically store the personal information of the traveler to whom a passport is issued. The passport cover will also have an embedded antenna

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