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B-272455 1 (1996-11-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeje0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Nations, Inc. File: B-272455 Date: November 5, 1996 William H. Butterfield, Esq., Kilcullen, Wilson and Kilcullen, for the protester. Nicholas P. Retson, Esq., Marvin Kent Gibbs, Esq., and Kim K. Judd, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation covers advisory and assistance services, and thus improperly provides for award of a single requirements contract, is sustained; professional technical services in support of battlefield simulation training fall within statutory and regulatory definitions of advisory and assistance services, and such services must be procured under multiple award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity-type contracts where, as here, contract price will exceed $10 million and contract term exceeds 3 years. DECISION Nations, Inc. protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT65-96-R- 0001, issued by the Department of the Army for services in support of various computer simulation training facilities. Nations principally maintains that the RFP improperly contemplates the award of a single requirements type contract rather than multiple indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) type contracts. We sustain the protest. As part of their training, Army officers participate in interactive, event driven computer simulation exercises employing scenarios that realistically model the capabilities of the Army, allied forces and selected opposing forces. These exercises are conducted at numerous facilities throughout the United States by the Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) . The RFP calls for contractor personnel to provide an array of support services in connection with TRADOC's simulation training program. These services include technical preparation for and assistance in executing the exercises (loading the appropriate data or scenarios into the simulation computers, participating as interactors and providing data during post-exercise review sessions conducted by the agency's personnel), evaluation of 1053122

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