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B-178881 1 (1973-08-16)

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              ThisIs nu.ply to your letter of July 16, 1973, end pr'or
         correspoudance, protesting agttnst the award of a ontract under ivwit-
         tico for bida (Ifl) W-CO-10-73, isued by the luigratioU and
         atualsation Service (Immigration), D$partment of Justice,

              The subject InS, a 100% unit business set-asik, soUcitd bids
         for the counting, sorting, alphabtijua, and tnbulating of approxiately
         3#O00O0 aea t address cards,
              Your protest I& based onafegsd deflidenctes 1z th IS relarding
         mccmptance standards, method of ctanting# Lack of a requivaemnt for a
         sitenuspection, jfailure to incitde a wage dateramuation under the
         PorvIke Contract Act wad the use of the nsafl bueneas sat-asuide
         provision.

              The first basis of your protest is that there are no eccoptance
         staneards described in the .FR. Paragraph 7 of the dncriptii of
         servie. reads as follows                     .

              Ace.ura.  It is essential thlnt an acsate count be
              maintained of the Forms 1-53 received. The total of nal
              the ali nis included in the reports (attachment 1) should
              equa4 the total cnvmt of the Addrs Cards received by
              the coutractors

              You believ that te stmdatd should hem been stated as 102
         Mrflfcp or whatever degree of accuracy the agency desired, so that ill
         biddes would have bid fmn a commn  base. Our Office believe, that
         acurat4' 1a sufficiently precise term to allow bidders to bid Intel-
         Ilgatly. Accurate has bem defined a   free rm error or defect.
         aye v. Schaefer, 148 Ngs. 24 532, 534. Threfore, from our reading of






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