[12359] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Sprint Protest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph W. Stroup)
Mon May 16 19:42:59 1994
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 14:16:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
On page 2 of the May 9, 1994 GAO decision under paragraph 4 one can find
some humor....
"Sprint challanges the award to MCI on the basis that a contract, rather
than a cooperative agreement, should have been awarded. Sprint alleges
that it was prejudiced because the award was not made in accordance with
the stated evaluation criteria and does not satisfy the solicitation's
requirements; that NSF did not consider price in its source selection;
that NSF failed to conduct meaningful discussions with Sprint; that NSF
failed to inform offerors other than MCI of the amount of permissible
commercial use of the network; and that federal funds are improperly
being used to underwrite MCI's commercial development of an automated
teller machine service." < YES ! Your read the last part right. It says
AUTOMATED TELLER SERVICE.
ATM = Automated Teller Service. Unique - :-) Go Figure.
Joseph Stroup
