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B-278407.2 1 (1998-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahoj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Sprint Communications Company File: B-278407.2 Date: February 13, 1998 David S. Cohen, Esq., and Alex B. Kond6, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, and George J. Affe, Esq., and Anthony L. Cogswell, Esq., Sprint Communications Company, for the protester. Richard P. Rector, Esq., Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., Chandra Emery, Esq., Piper & Marbury, and Robin L. Redfield, Esq., for MCI Telecommunications Corporation, the interveno r. H. Jack Shearer, Esq., McKenzie Whitaker, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. John Van Schaik, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq. Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Modification of contract for bandwidth management and switching services for Department of Defense telecommunications network to permit the contractor to become the primary supplier of transmission services for agency customers using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) service (a high-speed, packet-like switching and multiplexing technique which simultaneously transfers voice, data, and video at far higher speeds than other existing technology) is beyond the scope of the original contract; the transmission component of ATM must be purchased in accordance with the statutory requirements for competition. DECISION Sprint Communications Company protests the decision of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to modify its contract with MCI Telecommunications Corporation for bandwidth management and switching services for the Defense Information System Network (DISN). Sprint argues that the requirement of the modification that MCI provide transmission services exceeds the scope of the original contract. Thus, Sprint argues that DISA was required to hold a competition for the transmission services. We sustain the protest.

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