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B-291113 1 (2002-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoic0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Global Communications Solutions, Inc. File: B-291113 Date: November 15, 2002 Ronald K. Henry, Esq., Kaye Scholer, for the protester. Marshall J. Doke, Jr., Esq., Gardere Wynne Sewell, for AOS, Inc., an intervenor. William Mayers, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where a solicitation for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contemplates only a single competitive source selection for specific items, based on the proposals submitted in response to the solicitation, and is not for work to be assigned based on further competitions among the awardees, the proscription contained in 10 U.S.C. § 2304c(d) against protests of individual task and delivery orders does not preclude GAO's bid protest jurisdiction. 2. Agency's interpretation of solicitation price evaluation scheme to consider only the prices for the first 3 years, rather than the 10-year pricing solicited from the offerors, in determining the awardees of certain line items was unreasonable where the solicitation unambiguously stated that awards were to be made on the basis of 10-year pricing. DECISION Global Communications Solutions, Inc. protests the awards of certain contract line item numbers (CLIN) to AOS, Inc. for International Maritime Satellite (INMARSAT) services under a multiple-award, delivery-order contract awarded by the Defense Information Systems Contracting Organization (DITCO), Defense Information Systems Agency pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. DCA200-01-R-5029. We sustain the protest. The INMARSAT contract provides satellite-based mobile telecommunications services and equipment for the Department of Defense and other branches of the

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