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B-275034 1 (1997-01-17)

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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision




Matter of: Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems

File:       B-275034

Date:       January 17, 1997

Ronald K Henry, Esq., and Mark A. Riordan, Esq., Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays &
Handler, LLP, for the protester.
John R. Tolle, Esq., and Monica C. Gray, Esq., Barton, Mountain & Tolle, LLP,
for Universal Systems & Technology, Inc., an intervenor.
Kathy B. Cowley, Esq., Andrew Miller, Esq., and Brian Murphy, Department of the
Navy, for the agency.
Adam Vodraska, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

The issuance of a delivery order for the modernization of precision gunnery training
systems and the acquisition of additional systems under an existing contract for
automated data processing systems integration and support services is within the
scope of the tasks called for in that contract, which specifically include the
manufacture and integration of components in developing new or modifying existing
training systems and the manufacture of prototype and production units of weapons
system trainers.
DECISION

Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems protests the Department of the Navy's issuance
of a delivery order to Universal Systems & Technology, Inc. (UNITECH), for the
modernization of the Marine Corps's TOW Precision Gunnery Training System
(PGTS) and the acquisition of new PGTS units under UNITECH's existing level-of-
effort, indefinite quantity contract No. N00600-95-D-1367 for automated data
processing (ADP) systems integration and support services. Lockheed contends
that the delivery order is beyond the scope of UNITECH's contract.

We deny the protest.

The PGTS is an interactive computer-based simulator, which replicates the
operating characteristics of the TOW anti-tank weapon and allows TOW operators
to conduct tactical anti-armor training by simulating the fire and tracking of TOW
missiles using different target scenarios contained on a video disk and displayed on
a monitor. The PGTS provides feedback to both the trainee gunner and the


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