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B-191221 1 (1978-06-13)

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                    1 5     0 THE  COMPTPOLLER .EWNr4AL
      CECIBION      .         OF  THE   UNITED STATES
                              WARHJNGTON, D.C. 2054H



      FILE: 9-191221                DATE:  June 13, 1978

      MATTER  OF: McNally Pittuburg Manufacturing Corporation

      LIGEST:

      1.   Agency determination of bidder nonresponsi-
           bility will be upheld where protester fails
           to show bad faith or lack of reasonable
           basis for determination.
       2.  Protester's allegation 'hat agency employed
           unannounced definitive responsibility criteria
           is rejected where record shows that claimed
           definitive criteria were simply specific areas
           in which protester failed to demonstrate that
           it met experience criterion in iF8.

       3.  Similarity of prior experience to experience
           in manufacturing equipment specified in IFB
           is matter of judgment reserved to co'tracting
           officer in determining bidder's responsibility.
           McNally Pittaburg Manufacturing Corporation
      (McNally) proterts- the award of ccntracts by the
      Department of the Air Force, Arnold Air Force Sttion,
      Tennessee (Air Force), under invitation for bid:* (IFP),
      F40650-77-B0038 (-0038) to its competitors, Axel
      Johnson corporation (Axel Johnson) and Mosser Indus-
      tries,' Inc. (Mosser).

           The contracts are for valves for the Aeropropulsion
      Systems Test Facility, which is a wind tunnel. The IFB
      was issued on June 10, 1977, and bids were opened on
      September o, 1977. McNally bid on three packages nf
      valves.  The 2'11 provided for split awards however,
      McNally stipulated in a bid cover letter that it would
      accept award only on all of its package A, its packages
      A and B or its packages A, B, and C.













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