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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



          Decision


          Matter of: AdaRose, Inc.

          File:        B-299091.3

          Date:        March 28, 2008

          George Holt for the protester.
          Vera Meza, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
          Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preperation of this decision.
          DIGEST

          Under solicitation for armaments software engineering support, requirement that
          offerors have knowledge of and experience with agency software design processes is
          not unduly restrictive of competition where the record shows that the requirement is
          reasonably necessary to meet the agency's needs.
          DECISION

          AdaRose, Inc. protests the decision of the Department of the Army Joint Armaments
          Contracting Center to amend request for proposals (RFP) No. W15QKN-05-R-0229,
          for armaments software engineering center support, to enhance certain knowledge
          and experience requirements. AdaRose alleges that the enhanced knowledge and
          experience requirements unduly restrict competition. AdaRose also argues the
          agency's technical rating of its original proposal, a copy of which was provided by
          the agency as an aid in preparing a revised proposal, in fact was an improper
          evaluation of its original proposal against the amended solicitation.

          We deny the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          The protest concerns the agency's ongoing attempt to acquire indefinite-
          delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for various software engineering,
          infrastructure, technologies, and equipment support requirements. The RFP
          represents the first time that ten functional areas representing various weapons

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