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B-191224 1 (1978-07-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgfo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DE'CISIOl .i F ur H aIs T %.V* WAS'4INGTON. D. C. 2?0UrL' PILE: 8-191224 DATE: July 20, 1978 MATTER OF: Washex Machinery Corporation OIGEST: Where agency fails to show reasonable basis for limiting solicitation to pass-through washer- extractors as opposed to non-pass-through machines, and evidence shois pass-through aquipment exceeds Government's minimum needs, zolicitation should be canceled and requiremenc resolicited without restrictive specification. Washex Machinery Corporation (Washes) protests request for propasals (REP) DLA400-78-R-0749, issued on December 19, 1977, by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), for three 600-pound washer-extractors to be used in the laundry facility at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The washer-extractors are of the pass through variety? which means that dirty laundry is loaded from one side of the machine and clean laundry is removed from the other side. Washex manufactures non-pass-through washer-extractors, in which both loading and unloading are accomplished from the same side. The basis of Washe.c's protest is that the specification of a pass-through washer-extractor is overly restrictive and limits competition, in that, according to the protester, only two man- ufacturers can supply 6t0-pound pass-through units, while four or five make non-pass-through models. The protester also takes issue with DLA's determination that the purchase will provide increased efficiency, lower cost and improved sanitary conditions as com- pared with the present equipment. A protester whn objects to the specifications in an RFP boars a heavy burden. This is because, recognizing the wide discretion accorded to agency procurement personnel in determining the minimum needs of the Government, we have decined to disturb a specification unless it is clearly shown to be without a reasonable basis. Hydro Conduit Corpora- tion, B-188999, October 11, 1977, 77-2 CPU 202;

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