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B-191013 1 (1980-10-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadipo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 MATTER OF: Information International, Inc. -- SSA Request for Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Agency incorrectly believes that prior decisions in same procurement are inconsistent. Our first decision dealt with propriety of proposed bench- mark while second concerned evaluation of bench- mark results and awardee's selection. 2. VI Recommendation that agency conduct market survey to validate selection is clarified in view of agency's uncertainty regarding its intent. Exer- cise of annual renewal option to protect status quo pending possible reprocurement is consistent with recommendation. The Social Security Administration (SSA) asks us to reconsider our decision in Information International, Inc., B-191013, B-191013.2, August 8, 1980, 59 Comp. Gen. (1980), 80-2 CPD 100, concerning a protest by Information International, Inc. (III) of SSA's award of a lease with option to purchase multi-font optical scanning equipment from Recognition Equipment, Inc. (REI). The equipment was acquired to process data received on 14-2, W-2P and W-3 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms. REI's selection over III was based on REI's lower comp§uted life cycle cost cal- culated from data produced by benchmarking the equipment proposed. We sustained III's protest in part and recom- mended that SSA conduct a rarket survey to determine whether continued reliance on the REI equipment was in the Government's best interest. SSA questions our findings, arguing that our recent decision appears inconsistent with our findings in an earlier decision, Information International, Inc., B-191013, 4ay 31, 1978, 78-1 CPD 406, which concerned the same pro- curement. In that decision we concluded that III had not demonstrated that the benchmark, as proposed by SSA, was arbitrarily conceived. 13 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-191013 DATE: October 7, 1980

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