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ID-81-17 1 (1980-12-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbih0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ' - ) 7 RESTRICTED - Not to be released outside the General t- Accounting Office except on the -a, 's of specific approval Sby the Office of CongireLseG<.I Relations, UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 7 RELEASED iPE'riRNATIONA1. O1VISION DECEMBER 10, 1980 B-199954 The Honorable Charles H. Percy 11111 United States Senate 113978 Dear Senator Percy: Subject: Lvaluation of General Binding Corporation Inquiry(ID-81-17) This is in response to your letter of October 23, 1980, requesting our evaluation of comments made in a letter of September 10, 1980, from the General Binding Corporation. The Corporation's letter raises certain questions and makes various assertions, including that they are * * * confident that it can inmediately supply to the State Department a laminate with better security features than those of Data Guard at a lower cost than that being presently paid by the U.S. government. * * * We do not have the technical expertise necessary to determine the validity of the various assertions made and the merits of the Corporation's state- ment that they could deliver a product that would meet Department require- ments. In our August 21, 1980, letter (ID-80-56) to you we concluded the State Department complied with the applicable statutory and regulatory requirements for the award of a sole-source contract. Information given in the September 10, 1980, Corporation letter would not alter this opinion. We appreciate the Corporation's concern for being able to compete for a contract with an estimated $6.5 million potential sales over the next 10 years for laminates to be used to secure passport information. As stated in our August 21, 1980, letter, the laminate contract with the 3M Company expired on July 26, 1980. At that time, no decision had been made whether a sole-source or competitive contract would be used to satisfy future laminate requirements, however, the State Department contracting office indicated that future requests for a sole-source contract for lamination material would have to be justified on the basis of a review of currently available products which meet the requirements of the Department. (461990) 733%'-

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