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B-186932 1 (1979-03-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhan0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISIONi . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-1869 32 DATE: Mach 2 JQ7Q Base Information Systems, ( ) I Sol Inc.--Reconsideration & -D-IGEST 7. Denial of claim for proposal preparation costs is affirmed where claimant offers no new evidence and has not established.that prior decision resulted from error of law. Base Information Systems, Inc. (Base) requests reconsideration of our decision in Base Information Systems, Inc., B-186932, October 25, 1978, 78-2 CPD 299 (Base). In that case we denied Base's claim for proposal preparation costs in connection with a soli- citation, RFP 3-76, issued by the Federal Trade Commission- (FTC) for procurement of a word processing and tele- communications system. We previously sustained the protest underlying Base's claim. See Syima Data Com- puting Corporation and Base Information Systems, Inc., 56 Comp. Gen. 829 (1977), 77-2 CPD 59. However, the claim for proposal preparation costs was denied because Base failed to establish that the FTC's action in rejecting Base was motivated by caprice or bad faith. Base reiterates its view that the FTC's conduct in this matter was arbitrary and capricious. It has offered no additional evidence to support its position, but asserts that the conclusions of fact and law drawn in our previous denial were erroneous. At the outset, Base contends that the legal standards applied in reviewing the claim are erroneous. Referring to the decision in Keco Industries, Inc. v. United States, 203 Ct. Cl. 566 (1974), Base argues that it is entitled to recover its costs if any of the general criteria set out there are met. We disagree with Base's interpretation of the Keco decision. As the Court has recently indicated in Tide- water Management Services, Inc. v. United States, 573 FILE: MATTER OF: 74/7

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