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[Vendor May Exceed Government Requirements on Automobile
Procurement but Not Statutory Price Ceiling]. 3-188439. June 30,
1977. 7 pp.
)ecision re: Chrysler Corp.; by Robert F. Keller, Deputy
Comptroller General.
Issue Area; Pederal Procurement of Goods and Services:.
Reasonableness of Prices under Negotiated Contracts and
Subcontracts (1904).
Contact: Office of the General Counsel: Procurement Law I.
Budget Function: General Government: Other General Government
(806).
h)rganization Concerned: Geneal Services Administration.
Authority: 31 1.S.C. 638a(c) (1 F.P.R. 1-2.404-2(n-b). B-182754
(1975).
Bidder on contract for automobiles was rejected as
nonresponsive. Bid included optional automotive equipment
Government did not need. Vendor may properly exceed Government
requirements, except where, as here, this inclusion made cars
exceed statutory price ceiling: agency cannot procure items with
unnecessary features because vundors find it difficult to
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