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B-189168 1 (1978-03-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadftk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U'. _ I THE COMPTrROLLER 03ENERAL OECISION O F THE UNITED STATEpS 'A ASHINGTON. D.C. 23549 fl-IADilCR DATE: Nlrch 6, 1978 Rnaction Instruments, Inc. DIGEST* Request, for reconsideration of decision is denied where protesttr fazts to specify any error of law or information not pre- viously considered. Reaction Instruments, Inc. (Reaction), seeks reconsiderat:.cn of our denial of its request for reformation -f its contract, No. DOT-FA75M -3645, with the Federal Aviation Admtnistratton A A7.). See Reaction Instruments, Inc., 8-189163, NoVEm- ber 30, 1977, 77-2 CPD 424. Reaction states (1) that our conclusiin that the contracting officer pointed out the possibility of error in Rezction'n bid is unsupported in the record; and (2) that the Government should have disclosed its own estimate of performance cost. Reaction supporth this latter acgument by pointing to the large discrekancy between the Government's estimate and Reaction's bid for items 1 and 3 of the solicitation, and it claims that our statement of the difference between the estimate and Reaction's bid for the entire contract is somehow incorrec. Reaction seeks to prove this point by isolating two elements of the solicitation and showing that the Government's estimate with respect to these items was 174 percent higher than Reaction's bid. However, our comparison was between the estimate and Reaction's bid for the entire contract. We stated that the esti- mate was 21 percent higher toan the bid. This was a correct computation, as is Reactio's. We do not believe that Rer.ccion's comparison, although accurate, - 1 - 9 I I I FILE: MATTER OF: I p N - Nc, 4-----. I I

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