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B-186311 1 (1978-02-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfrb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE CIMPVfPO-LER GENEIIAL DECISION .'. OF THE UN1TEfL BTATES %,WA I NCT 0 N. E).C0. 2 0 51 E FILE: 8-186311 DATE: Februury 3, 1978 MATTER OF: University Research Corporation - Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Claim for proposal preparation contr is denied because, while claimant meots standards for entitlement under Keco Industries, it is not reasonably certain that 'waimanu7 rated high technically, would have received award because it dil not offer lowest ast and, therefore, award would have to be based on tLade-off between cost and technical. 2. Holding in 8-186311, August 16, 1977, that payment of proposal preparation costs to offeror, who was primarily Government cost- reimbursement contractor, would result in double payment since contractor had already been reiMoursed costs under overhead rate of other contracts, is modified where contractor agrees to credit general and administrative costs pool with any payment of claim, thereby avoiding double payment. University Research Corporation (URC) has requested reconsideration of our decision in the motter of Univer- sity Research Corporation - Reconsideration, 8-186311, August 16, 1977, 77-2 CPD 118. The August 16 decision was a reconsideratin of our decision of Aug'st 26, 1976 (-186311, 76-2 CPD 188), in which we sustdined the protest of URC against the award of a contract by the Department of Labor to American Technical Assistance Corporation (ATAC). We found that Labor had not conducted an adequate cost analyois and that there was a lack of rational support for the source selec- tion of ATAC. We recommended that the option under ATAC's contract not be exercised and the requirement be competi- tively resolicited. Bacause of the above rucommendation, - 1 - I

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