B-200755, MAR 6, 1981
Highlights
IS NOT "INTERESTED PARTY" UNDER OUR BID PROTEST PROCEDURES SINCE SUSPENSION RENDERS PROTESTER INELIGIBLE FOR AWARD. PROTEST IS DISMISSED. CSC WAS SUSPENDED FROM CONTRACTING WITH THE GSA. SINCE CSC IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR AWARD HERE. IT IS NOT AN "INTERESTED PARTY" UNDER SECTION 20.1(A) (1980) OF OUR BID PROTEST PROCEDURES. THE PROTEST IS DISMISSED.
B-200755, MAR 6, 1981
DIGEST: PROTESTER, SUSPENDED FROM CONTRACTING WITH GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION FOR TELEPROCESSING SERVICES CONTRACTS UNDER APPLICABLE PROCUREMENT REGULATIONS, IS NOT "INTERESTED PARTY" UNDER OUR BID PROTEST PROCEDURES SINCE SUSPENSION RENDERS PROTESTER INELIGIBLE FOR AWARD. THEREFORE, PROTEST IS DISMISSED.
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION:
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION, INFONET DIVISION (CSC), PROTESTS THE AWARD OF A PURCHASE ORDER FOR TELEPROCESSING SERVICES TO COMPUTER NETWORK CORPORATION (COMNET) BY THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA), UNDER COMNET'S MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE CONTRACT.
CSC ARGUES THAT GSA ACCEPTED A MODIFICATION OF COMNET'S MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE CONTRACT IN VIOLATION OF THE PRICE REDUCTION CLAUSE OF THE CONTRACT AND THAT GSA IMPROPERLY EVALUATED COMNET'S COST BY NOT INCLUDING CERTAIN CHARGES.
ON NOVEMBER 3, 1980, CSC WAS SUSPENDED FROM CONTRACTING WITH THE GSA. GSA, ON JANUARY 16, 1981, AMENDED CSC'S SUSPENSION TO COVER ONLY TELEPROCESSING SERVICES CONTRACTS.
SINCE CSC IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR AWARD HERE, IT IS NOT AN "INTERESTED PARTY" UNDER SECTION 20.1(A) (1980) OF OUR BID PROTEST PROCEDURES. COMSPACE CORPORATION, B-189516, OCTOBER 17, 1977, 77-2 CPD 296.
ACCORDINGLY, THE PROTEST IS DISMISSED.