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B-181642 1 (1975-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcuh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~0kLER Q THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-181642 DATE: October 20,1975 MATTER OF: Informatics, Incorporated C 1 2 / / DIGEST: Cancellation of solicitation is justified where GAO investigation shows that work originally specified no longer adequately reflects agency's current need. Investigation conducted pursuant to decision denying protest against cancellation of solicitation has revealed no evidence that agency officials acted improperly or in bad faith. By decision dated February 28, 1975 (Informatics, Incorporated, B-181642) we denied the protest of BNA Research, Inc., against the Department of Commerce's cancellation of solicitation No. 4-36995, which called for bids for the extraction of information from patent applications and the conversion of such data into the proper form for printing of Patent Office publications. Notwithstanding our denial of the protest, the decision stated that our Office would initiate a detailed investigation of the cir- cumstances surrounding the procurement to ascertain whether correc- tive measures are warranted. Our investigation consisted of a review of pertinent agency documents and discussions with officials of the Patent Office, Department of Commerce and Government Printing Office (GPO). The review was directed, in part, towards the Department's cancellation of the solicitation, which was based upon a large number of changes in the specifications. We have reviewed the events leading to the cancellation as indicated in the following paragraphs. Prior to 1970, all patents and the weekly Official Gazette, which contains summaries of all approved patents, were prepared for printing by GPO. In an effort to automate the printing of patents and the Official Gazette and to develop a patent data base having retrieval capabilities, the Department awarded a fixed-price- indefinite-quantity contract on April 29, 1970, to the International Computaprint Corporation (ICC) for services to prepare in machine language on computer magnetic tape, the patent data for a patent full text data base and to extract data for patent printing. The contract provided for these services for 1 year with 2 option years. - 1 -

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