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B-288622 1 (2001-11-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamsg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Computer Technology Associates, Inc. File: B-288622 Date: November 7, 2001 David R. Hazelton, Esq., Thomas Patten, Esq., and C. Thomas Powell, Esq., Latham & Watkins, for the protester. Susan D. Falkson, Esq., and William A. Wotherspoon, Esq., for Unisys Corporation, and James J. McCullough, Esq., and Catherine E. Pollack, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for Science Applications International Corp., intervenors. Kacie A. Haberly, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where protester's employees, including two management personnel, improperly obtained and reviewed other vendors' proposal material during course of procurement, agency reasonably determined to disqualify protester from further participation in the competition. DECISION Computer Technology Associates, Inc. (CTA) protests its disqualification from further participation under a request for quotation (RFQ) issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Supply Service (FSS), for information technology (IT) services. CTA asserts that there is no evidence to support the disqualification. We deny the protest. The RFQ provided for the award of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for IT applications maintenance, enhancement, technical support, program management, and transition services to maintain and enhance existing FSS IT applications. The RFQ also provided for the award of five task orders, each for a base period, with nine 1-year options. Future task orders were to be awarded as FSS needs dictated. Proposals were to be evaluated on the basis of technical quality factors and price, with technical quality considered significantly more important than price. Multiple BPAs were to be awarded based on the technical acceptability of proposals on all

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