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B-297800.3 1 (2006-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasnr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G a A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Skyline ULTD, Inc. File: B-297800.3 Date: August 22, 2006 Albert B. Krachman, Esq., and Brian S. Gocial, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. Adele Ross Vine, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging rejection of proposal for failure to acknowledge solicitation amendment is denied where amendment contains material terms affecting legal relationship of the parties, including obligation for contractor to monitor changes in foreign travel danger area status and promptly coordinate such changes with contracting agency. DECISION Skyline ULTD, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal for failure to acknowledge solicitation amendments under request for proposals (RFP) No. 6FG2005MTVOOOO1, issued by the General Services Administration for information technology services. Skyline contends that the amendments are not material and that its failure to acknowledge them should be waived as a minor informality. We deny the protest. The RFP, set aside for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses, provides for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for information systems engineering, operation, and maintenance services for a 5-year base period and a 5-year option period. RFP at F-i, L-1, L-14. The RFP advised that the agency intended to make all awards on the basis of the offerors' initial proposals without conducting discussions. Id. Each proposal was to be initially evaluated for acceptability, including a review for completeness and adherence to instructions. Id. at M-1. Any material failure to follow directions (nonconformance), including the omission of required information of a material nature, was to result in rejection

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