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B-294123 1 (2004-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapnn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability 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: Input Solutions, Inc. File: B-294123 Date: August 31, 2004 Joel S. Rubinstein, Esq. and Lawrence M. Prosen, Esq., Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, for the protester. Todd Glass for Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc., an intervenor. Emily Vartanian, Esq., Library of Congress, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that certain statements made by the contracting officer in an e-mail message created a latent ambiguity in a solicitation's performance requirements is denied where protester's interpretation of the communication was unreasonable and, as a result, no latent ambiguity was created. Moreover, if we accepted the protester's interpretation of the communication, the ambiguity would be patent, not latent, and its protest, at this juncture, would be untimely. DECISION Input Solutions, Inc. (ISI) protests the issuance of a delivery order to Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. LC04-Q-1984, issued by the Library of Congress for scanning and conversion of microfilm document images to digitized images in portable document format (PDF) files. ISI, the incumbent contractor for these services, contends that it was misled by certain statements made by the contracting officer (CO) about the performance requirements. ISI contends that the challenged agency communication created a latent ambiguity in the work requirements and that, as a result, the quotations received were based on different understandings of the scope of work. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued on April 28, 2004, provided limited general performance specifications for scanning/conversion services, and sought quotes from General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contractors. The RFQ anticipated, for instance, scanning/conversion of up to 111,875 standard image pages

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