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B-291653 1 (2003-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyen0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General A- Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Datastream Systems, Inc. File: B-291653 Date: January 24, 2003 Thomas W. Epting, Esq., and Jack H. Tedards, Jr., Esq., Leatherwood Walker Todd & Mann, for the protester. Dorn C. McGrath, III, Esq., Scott Arnold, Esq., and Karen L. Tinsky, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, for MRO Software, Inc., an intervenor. Lydia Kupersmith, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly relaxed solicitation's technical requirement that a computerized maintenance management system be web-based by accepting for award a system that requires the use of a software plug-in program (which was not included in the awardee's proposal) in order to be fully web-based is denied where the protester has not established competitive prejudice as a result of the waiver. DECISION Datastream Systems, Inc. protests the award of a contract to MRO Software, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. WPI-20021, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to procure a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to manage buildings in the Washington, D.C. area. Datastream argues that MRO's proposal failed to meet the solicitation's technical requirements, and that GSA relaxed those requirements solely for MRO. We deny the protest. GSA's National Capital Region (NCR) issued this solicitation on July 23, 2002 to procure, on a pilot basis, a CMMS to manage its more than 680 buildings in the Washington, D.C. area. The NCR's government-owned and -managed assets--fewer than 200 of these buildings--are the primary target for an enterprise CMMS for the

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