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B-297959 1 (2006-05-12)

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A         G    A    O                                                  Comptroller General
.       Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                       of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548                                   DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                                      The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
                                                      GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
          Decision                                  .approved for public release.



          Matter of. NCR Government Systems LLC

          File:        B-297959; B-297959.2

          Date:        May 12, 2006

          E. Sanderson Hoe, Esq., Jason N. Workmaster, Esq., and Jeniffer M. De Jesus, Esq.,
          McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester.
          Thomas P. Humphrey, Esq., Elizabeth W. Newsom, Esq., John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq.,
          and Peter J. Eyre, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for IBM Corporation, an intervenor.
          JoAnn W. Melesky, Esq., and William Mayers, Esq., Defense Information Systems
          Agency, for the agency.
          Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Protest challenging agency's acceptance of a late revision to awardee's proposal is
          denied where the agency reasonably accepted revision as a modification to an
          otherwise successful proposal.

          2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of compliance of awardee's proposed
          equipment with solicitation requirements is denied where awardee stated that
          equipment met requirements and its proposal provided no reason for agency to
          conclude otherwise.

          3. Protest challenging agency's technical evaluation of proposals is denied where
          agency reasonably distinguished between offerors' proposals and protester was not
          otherwise prejudiced by the evaluation.
          DECISION

          NCR Government Systems LLC protests the award of a contract to IBM Corporation
          under request for proposals (RFP) HC 1013-05-R-2006, issued by the Defense
          Information Systems Agency, Defense Information Technology Contracting
          Organization for the Commissary Advanced Resale Transaction System (CARTS).
          The protester contends that the agency improperly accepted a late proposal revision
          from IBM, waived a material RFP requirement for equipment for IBM, unreasonably

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