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B-197854.2,B-199555,B-199556 1 (1980-09-10)

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              cc        THE  COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION     tOF THE UNITED STATES
                        WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548




FILE:     B-197854.2; B-199555;DATE: September 10, 1980
          B-199556
MATTER  OF:        Embassy House, Inc.         O


DIGEST:

1.   Prior decision is affirmed where request for
     reconsideration fails to advance factual or
     legal grounds upon which reversal would be
     warranted.  New protests of later procure-
     ments on same bases as those rejected in prior
     decision therefore are swumarily denied.

2.   GAO is without authority to determine what
     records must be released by another agency
     in response to request under Freedom of
     Information Act.

     Embassy House, Inc. requests that we reconsider
our decision in Embassy House, Inc., B-197854, July 7,
1980, 80-2,CPD 15, in which we denied the firm's protest
against the award of a contract by the Defense Logistics 16C
Agency's Defense Personnel Support Center (DPST)t os-
ply tea under invitation for bids DLAl3H-80-D-7949.
Embassy House also protests the award-by DPSC of contracts
to supply tea under solicitations DLAl3H-80-B-8952 and
DLAl3H-80-R-9095 essentially for the same reasons that
were argued in the earlier protest.

     Our prior decision is affirmed, and the new protests
are summarily denied.

Earlier Protest

     Embassy House had protested that the standard which
the offered tea was required to meet, and the organo-
leptic method of testing tea for conformance with the
standard, were too subjective. The standard is known
as the A-2 Standard; organoleptic involves appeal






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