ORDER CORRECTING CLERICAL ERROR: January 27, 1993
                                                             
 
 
                             GSBCA 12667-P
 
 
                     PINDAR DONNELLEY PARTNERSHIP,
 
                                                Protester,
 
                                  and
 
                           GRAPHICDATA, INC.,
 
                                                Intervenor,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE,
 
                                                Respondent,
 
                                  and
 
                INTERNATIONAL COMPUTAPRINT CORPORATION,
 
                                                Intervenor.
 
        Michael  A. Nemeroff, Francis  J. O'Toole, Gary  P. Quigley,
   Joseph C. Port, Jr.,  and Denise W. DeFranco of  Sidley & Austin,
   Washington, DC, counsel for Protester.
 
        Richard  D. Lieberman, J.  Randolph MacPherson, and  Jane B.
   Maxwell  of Sullivan  & Worcester,  Washington,  DC, counsel  for
   Intervenor GraphicData, Inc.
 
        Jerry A.  Walz, Mark Langstein,  Lisa J. Obayashi,  and Fred
   Kopatich, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Finance and
   Litigation, Department of  Commerce, Washington, DC,  counsel for
   Respondent.
 
        Joseph J. Petrillo, Michael A. Hordell,  Laurel A. Heneghan,
   and  Jessica C. Abrahams  of Petrillo &  Hordell, Washington, DC;
   and  Burton Schwalb  of  Schwalb,  Donnenfeld,  Bray  &  Silbert,
   Washington, DC, counsel for Intervenor International ComputaPrint
   Corporation.
 
   WILLIAMS, Board Judge.
 
 
                                 Order
 
        The  Board's  opinion  in the  protest  of  Pindar Donnelley
   Partnership,   GSBCA  12667-P,  issued   to  the   parties  under
   protective order  on December  27, 1993,  and issued  in redacted
   form on January 6, 1994, contained a clerical error in the fourth
   full paragraph on  page 5.  The corrected page 5 in redacted form
   is issued herewith.
 
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                                      MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS
                                      Board Judge
   application  by making  various  markings  for  printing  and  is
   essentially a pen-and-paper  operation.  Id.  at 20.   Typically,
   there  are  multiple  amendments in  a  patent  application which
   require  complex tracking and which are reflected in the ultimate
   identification of patentable material.  Id. at 21.
 
 
        As part of CLIN 1, the contractor is required to process the
   edited material prior to generating the actual tapes.  Transcript
   at  226-27.    According  to  Pindar's  Director  of  Information
   Technology,  "the heart  of the  RFP" would  be data  capture and
   processing,  which  entails spending  "an awful  lot of  time and
   effort in digitizing that data."  Id. at 307-08.
 
        Although  the solicitation does not expressly require use of
   a   particular    computer   methodology    in   producing    the
   photocomposition driver tape and the data tapes, PTO contemplated
   that  the   contractor  would  employ  keyboard   entry,  optical
   scanning, or  other means  to enter the  edited information  on a
   computer system and generate both  types of tapes.  Transcript at
   13, 41; Protester's Exhibit 7.  The solicitation does not specify
   any  particular keyboard or scanning methodology or technology to
   be used; it simply requires  the production -- via whatever means
   -- of photocomposition and data tapes.  Transcript at 41.  
 
 
               Id. at 349-50.  
 
        As PTO's Director of  OPD explained:  "[T]he contract  . . .
   does not  necessarily require  the computer.   It does  not state
   that  a computer  is  required.   However,  this  job is  usually
   performed with  computer systems,  yes."  Transcript  at 84.   He
   continued:   "[L]et me  emphasize that what  is required  in this
   contract is the deliverables.  Now, obviously, if you're going to
   have computer  products, you  are going to  need computers  to do
   that. . . .     This  contract  states  you  must  deliver  these
   products.   It's  obvious from  the products  that a  computer is
   going  to  be  involved."   Id.  at  85.    Pindar's  Director of
   Information Technology reiterated that a computer is necessary to
   perform the work.  Id. at 287-88, 314.
 
        Whatever  the methodology  used, the  creation  of both  the
   photocomposition  driver  tapes   and  the  data  tapes   entails
   translating  text  and  image data  into  different  formats; the
   photocomposition driver tapes  are uniquely formatted for  use on
   the Videocomp  photocomposition machine, while the  database tape
   is formatted  in ASCII and  VERSION II and stores  the voluminous
   information contained in patent files.  Transcript at 18-20, 39.
 
        During a  typical  week  in  this  procurement,  60  to  100
   photocomposition tapes  would be  delivered; three  to five  data
   base tapes  would be delivered.   Transcript at  94.  One  of the
   reasons  that it takes  more photocomposition tapes  to encompass
   essentially