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B-280456.2 1 (1998-09-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahvr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Omega World Travel, Inc. File: B-280456.2 Date: September 17, 1998 Barry Roberts, Esq., and Brian J. Hundertmark, Esq., Roberts & Hundertmark, for the protester. Philip T. McCaffrey, Esq., U.S. General Accounting Office, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where there is no requirement that an agency define its needs for commercial-off- the-shelf software by commercial brand name, the agency appropriately defined its needs for commercially available travel management software by using a broad commercial item description stated in terms of functional requirements. DECISION Omega World Travel, Inc. protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. OAM-98-N-0005, issued by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) for travel management services and a client/server-based travel subsystem software package. We deny the protest. The RFP was issued on June 1, 1998. As relevant to this protest, the RFP stated that the agency required: a commercially available software package which supports travel processing under federal regulations. The software would be used by travelers or administrative staff supporting the travel function to create travel orders and travel vouchers compliant with the appropriate travel rules. The software must have the capability to directly export the related accounting transactions into GAO's Financial Management System. RFP, Attachment B, section II, at 1. The RFP listed technical and functional requirements in order for the software to be able to run on the GAO network. As relevant here, the functional requirements were divided into the following four categories: (1) pre-travel processes; (2) post-

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