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B-296206 1 (2005-07-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqwr0001 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: Research Analysis & Maintenance, Inc. File: B-296206; B-296206.2 Date: July 12, 2005 William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., Benjamin A. Winter, Esq., and Peter A. Riesen, Esq., Venable, Baetjer and Howard, for the protester. Helaine G. Elderkin, Esq., and Carl J. Peckinpaugh, Esq., for Computer Sciences Corporation, an intervenor. John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration. Raymond M. Saunders, Esq., and Capt. Peter G. Hartman, Department of the Army, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against sole-source award of contract for maintenance and operation of foreign threat systems is denied where agency reasonably determined that protester's performance under its current contract was unacceptable, and that protester had not adequately addressed the unacceptable performance, casting protester's ability to satisfactorily perform new contract into doubt. DECISION Research Analysis & Maintenance, Inc. (RAM) protests the award by the Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO), Department of the Army, of a sole-source contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for maintenance and operation of foreign threat systems. RAM asserts that TSMO improperly failed to consider RAM, the incumbent contractor, as a potential source. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND TSMO is responsible for providing realistic threats during the testing of weapon systems and during training and other exercises. Specifically, TSMO is tasked with the assembly of intelligence information and the design, development, procurement,

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