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B-185418 1 (1979-03-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgzo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: _ V * 00..4F> -THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION -uAOF THE UNITED STATES W WAS H IN GTON, 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-185418 - DATE: March 12, 1 MATTER OF: Gardner Machinery Corporation; G. A. Braun, Incorporated - Request for Reconsideration 3 C o Prior decision of Septemb.r 25, 1978, which held that solicitation was unduly restrictive of competition, is affirmed where request for reconsideration does not show that prior decision was .based on errors of fact or law. American Laundry Machinery Industries (American) requests reconsideration of our decision in Gardner Machinery Corporation; G. A. Braun, Incorporated, B-185418, September 25, 1978, 78-2 CPD 221, because of certain alleged factual errors contained in the decision. Our decision of September 25, 1978, which reversed our decision of September 15, 1976, 76-2 CPD 245, involving the same firms and issues, held that the Veterans Administration (VA) specifications for a shelless laundry wash system to be installed at the consolidated laundry, Veterans Administration Hospital, Salisbury, North Carolina, were unduly restrictive of competition. In reaching this decision, our Office concluded that Braun's automated washer/extractor system would have satisfied the Government's minimum needs and, therefore, the VA specifications which permitted only a shelless wash system were unduly restrictive. American contends that our decision is erroneous in stating that Braun's washer/extractor system is automated as that term is understood in the laundry industry and implies that Braun's system would not have satisfied the VA's requirements for the subject procurement. American states that Braun's system in- ,stalled at St. Joseph's Hospital is not an automated washer/extractor system but is a monorail sling loading and unloading arrangement with several con- ventional pass through washer/extractors. American states that the laundry industry has never considered

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