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B-191318 1 (1978-09-20)

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           THI  COMPTROLLE.R GENERAL
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           WAVINGTON, I.C. 20540


B-191318


DATE: September 20, '1978


MATTER   OF:


Fiber Materials, Inc.-Reconsideration


DIGEST:


     Original decision is affirmed 'here request
     for reconsideration provides no legal or
     factual basis to alter conclusion that sole
     source award was justified.

     Fiber Materials, Inc,  (PaI), requests reconsidera-
tion (f our decision B-191318, June 8, 1978,  57 Comp.
Gen.    , 78-1 CPD 422. FMI protested  the award of
a subcontract by Sandia Corporatior. (Sandia) under
Request for Quotation (RFQ) BKH/07-5583  for a rigid-
ized but un6ensified preform of fine-weave-pierced  fa-
bric (FWPP) carbon material woven  from polyacrylonitrile
(PAN) yarn. Sandia is the operating contractor  fCco: the
Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia Laboratories.


     The contract award was
to AVCO Corporation (AVCO)
priced offer in response to


made  on a sole source basis
notwithstanding FMI's lower
the  unrestricted RFQ.


     Our prior decision held that although  it would have
been proper to cancel the solicitation and make  a sole
source award when the sole source requirement was dis-
covered after the receipt of proposals, award  to the
solo source supplier under the original RFQ was  not
prejudicial to FMI since the same result would  ultimately
have been attained and the solicitation did not  set
forth any particular basis for award, such as  price.
The thrust of PMI's request for reconsideration  is a
challenge to the sole source justification.


     The PWPF-PAN material
materials analysis tests by


was to be subjected to
Sandia  in conjunction


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