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B-195391.2 1 (1980-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjtx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B-195391. 2 June 10, 1980 The Honorable Marion S. Barry, Jr. Mayor of the District of Columbia Washington, D.C. 20001 Dear Mayor Barry: We refer to our March 10, 1980 letter to vc, enclos- ing our decision B & W Stat Laboratory, Inc., 7-i95391, March 10, 1980, 80-1 CPD 184. In that letter we reco.:- mended that the option to renew the contract of Precision Analytical Laboratories, Inc. (PAL), which was awarded under IFB 0074-AA-65-0-9-BM, not be exercised. The con- tract is for on-site laboratory urinalysis (drug detec- tion) services for the District of Columbia Superior Court. Our letter also requested that we be advised of the actions taken by the District in response to our recommendations. We recently received a letter from the Deputy Direc- tor of General Services dated May 20, 1980, requesting that we modify our recommendation to permit renewal of the PAL contract because of an error in the original record. Briefly, our ecommendation witqh respect to th-e A renewal option was based in large measure on an analysis of urine sampi.s performed by the Armed Forces Insti- tute of Pathology (AFIP) at the District's request which indicated that the preaward tests performed by PAL on specially prepared urine samples were inconclusive. The Deputy Director's letter enclosed a memorandum from Dr. Kurt Brandt, Acting Medical Director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Administration, and a letter from AFIP, both of which indicated that the original AFIP test results were calibrated on free morphine contained in the samples and not total morphine as defined in the specification. After AFIP retested the samples with the correct calibration, the PAL test results were shown to be within normal tolerances.

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