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B-271034 1 (1996-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: CNA Industrial Engineering, Inc. File: B-271034 Date: June 7, 1996 Richard L. Hames, Esq., Davis Wright Tremaine, for the protester. Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., for GeneSys, Inc., an intervenor. Steven W. Feldman, Esq., U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Peter A. Iannicelli, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where request for proposals (RFP) for an automated storage and retrieval system stated as a minimum requirement that proposals must demonstrate expertise and experience with the Army's information software system, and the agency stated at a preproposal conference that only expertise and experience with the Army's information software system would meet the RFP's minimum requirement, award to an offeror that had expertise/experience with a similar software system but not the Army's software system was an improper relaxation of the RFP's stated minimum requirement. DECISION CNA Industrial Engineering, Inc. (CNA) protests award of a fixed-price contract to GeneSys, Inc. (GI) for an automated storage and retrieval system by the Corps of Engineers pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. DACA87-95-R-0092. The protester contends that the agency should have rejected GI's proposal as unacceptable because GI did not meet the RFP's minimum qualifications. The protester also contends that the agency improperly downgraded CNA's own proposal during evaluation of proposals. We sustain the protest. Issued on August 15, 1995, as a total small business set-aside by the Corps's Huntsville Division, the RFP solicited proposals for installation and testing of an automated storage and retrieval system at the Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, and for associated maintenance and training services. The primary 1137625

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