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B-193177.2 1 (1981-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiul0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 U '. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION Kr)1 OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON_ D. C. 20548 FILE: B-193177.2 DATE: January 19, 1981 MtATTER OFA (-I Honeywell Information Systems, Inc.-- Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Prior decision upholding agency's cancel- lation of solicitation is affirmed where request for reconsideration fails to advance factual or legal grounds upon which reversal would be warranted. 2. Protester alleging bad faith in agency decision to cancel solicitation has not met its very heavy burden of meeting judicially established standard of well-nigh irrefragable proof where record reflects at worst agency inexpert- ness and inefficiency. Further, unfair or prejudicial motives will not be attributed to procuring officials on basis of inference or supposition. Honeywell Information Systems, Inc. has requested reconsideration of our decision, Honeywell Information Systems, Inc., B-193177.2, December 6, 1979, 79-2 CPD 392, which denied Honeywell's protest of the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) Ho. L/A 78-8 by the Department of Labor (DOL). The details of the procurement, which are rather involved, are set forth in our earlier decision and will not be extensively repeated here. Briefly, the RFP, issued on February 8, 1978, was for an automated data processing system to upgrade DOT's Departmental Computer Center (DCC) to be capable of handling in-house approximately 90 percent of the entire agency's projected ADP requirements in furtherance of a policy objective originally established in 1975. Subsequently, on March 12, 1979, at which time Honeywell was the sole offeror, the Secretary of Labor approved canceling the RFP and phasing down the DCC to a telecommunications and smaller ADP processing facility with other ADP work :

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