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B-292077.2 1 (2003-09-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacykj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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: Computer Associates International, Inc. File: B-292077.2 Date: September 4, 2003 Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq., J. Michael Littlejohn, Esq., J. William Eshelman, Esq., and Elizabeth M. Gill, Esq., Wickwire Gavin, P.C., and James M. Black, Esq., Computer Associates International, Inc., for the protester. Marion T. Cordova, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's argument that the solicitation is defective in that it fails to set forth the agency's actual minimum requirements is in essence a challenge to the evaluation of vendor responses, and thus is premature where award has not yet been made. 2. Corrective action taken by the agency in response to a suspected procurement impropriety is unobjectionable where the agency has a reasonable basis for restricting the scope of revisions that vendors may make to their quotes, and the agency's corrective action resolves the suspected impropriety. DECISION Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ-OPPM-3-1007VT, issued by the Office of Procurement and Property Management, Department of Agriculture (USDA), for quotes from Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors for change management software. CA argues that the solicitation is defective in that it fails to set forth the agency's minimum requirements, and that the amended solicitation improperly precludes vendors from revising their technical quotes to address the agency's allegedly unstated minimum requirements. We deny the protest. The RFQ, initially issued on December 13, 2002, requested quotes from three FSS vendors, including CA, for a change management software product, to include installation, configuration, training, and maintenance, for use at the USDA National

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