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B-191000 1 (1978-01-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfqc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I U- I. I! 4 * I 'A.'I ¾ i'/ I. At. 1~ ~, ~~ I I' I 4 1 rA PJy- 'I r ~flTum COMPTRIOLLER UIMEESL OUCUIMON . .MP TM UNITED STATUE WAUMINTON. 0.0. A04 FlM 0-191000 DAYS: JasMary 18, 1975 MATTER OF; Ovegee Wilbert Vault Corporation DNBGES: Protest based on. contention that successVful bidder Is mat responsible is dismissed aince it concersu challenge to ancy ', afftirmative determination of respcuasbility wbich is not matter for review by GA except in oircamsnces not present here. Oregon Uahrt Vault Cor tin (Oregon) rotests an amrd .ide to H. & W. Vault Corporatis of.,invtitloo for bids (IF7) 6d8-178. tssued the Vete -as Administration (VA) for the supply ±d instal lation of grave boxes at Willamette Eational Cemetery. . Oregon. contendsy that the successful bidder, a small busines concern, is notrsposible for purposen of this IFS and that the agency should have referred the matter to the ball Business Administration for cotaideration. Thime issu isaed ir ncn ch4 enge to VA s afimuatire dtermination of ,the succ 6sfuibiddemr's respou* sibily aiiOffice doe t revie protests of uffiumative d i e respedibilty, ua so d fadisullegeid on t part- of -the contracting officer:dr the biiitation con- htas defiitive responsibiity criterai h l.legedly have met be a plied. eC 1 1Pidibta-I i., 54 Comp. Gen.\$6 (1974), 74-2 CPD 64; Data TstGCorporition, 54Cmp. Gen. 499 (1974), 7-2 CPD 365,caffimmel 34 Comp. Gen.1?15 V (1975), 73-CPD138. While we do coLider Tpote ta involving ,aasstir 'detra ionof to) of 1ron 6diLayin order >ovdasrancefast the arbtiaryrcrojection of bids, an affirative deter&ination i based i! i1an easure as a subjactive ,judgmaut which is largely within the discre- tion et the procuiuag officLa1suiho must suffer any difficulties resuating by reason of a contractor's inablifty to perform. Here there is no allegation that'the responsibility detemina- tion was the result of fraud or that definitive criteria have not been applied. * 1l - '-p . --~4V' K. '4. .. . p

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