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B-188743 1 (1978-03-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfvt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I James Cunningham THIE COMIPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION .OF &f4. OP THE UNITED UTATED WASHINGTO N. D.C. 20540 4. TL9 F;LE:sB-188743 DATE: March 21, 1978 MATTER OF: Gull Airborne Instruments, Inc.-- Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. GAO has no authority to direct a procuring agency to conduct an investigation of alleged criminal conduct or to investigate on its own alleged criminal conduct. Notwithstanding this position GAO has reserved the right to question responsi- bility findings where--unlike the instant cane--the findings show a violation of law such as to taint procurement. 2. Since purported, admittedly revoked assiqn- ment only referred to proposal commitmnM.s rather than bid commitments and was not specifically applicable to IFB in questicn, there is no need to consider protester- procuring agency arguments relating to assignment. Cull Airborne Instruments, Inc., has requested reconsideration of our decision in Gull Airborne Instru- ments, Inc., 57 Comp. Gen. 67 (1977), 77-2 CPD 344. Our decision denied Gull's protest against the proposed award of a contract to Consolidated Airborne Systems, Inc. (CAS), by the Department of the Navy. Gull had objected to the Departme,,t of the Navy's proposed award to CAS on several grounds--the grounds of which, insofar as are pertinent to the request for reconsideration, are summarized, as follows: (1) The Navy improperly disregarded Gull's claim that CAS misrepresented certain activities such.that there may have been a iriminal violation of the securities law; -1I- A1 V PL I (

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