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THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES
-' WAS HIN GTO N. 0. C. 20548
FILE: B-194497.2 DATE:February 3, 1981
MTTER OF: Interscience Systems, Inc.--
yeyi% rl- Reconsideratioj
DIGEST:
Prior decision is affirmed where
request for reconsideration fails
to advance factual or legal grounds
upon which reversal would be war-
ranted.
Interscience Systems, Inc.'requests reconsiderationj
of Interscience Systems, Inc., 59 Comp. Gen. 68 (1979),
79-2 CPD 306, in which we denied the firm's protest
against the Environmental Protection Agency's-(EPA)
purchase of computer equipment through what we termed
was the exercise of an option under an existing lease
contract with Sperry-Univac Division of Sperry Rand
Corporation (Univac).
Our prior decision is affirmed.
On March 15, 1979, Univac submitted to EPA a
special purchase offer to sell certain computer equip-
ment for use at the EPA National Computer Center. The
offer was on an all or none basis and was contingent
upon EPA acceptance no later than March 29.rEPA evaluated
the offer and determined that approximately $4,000,000
could be saved, by purchase [acceptance of the offer],
over the estimated 5-year life cycle of the equipment.;-,
As a result, EPA requested a Delegation of Procurement
Authority (DPA) from the General Services Administration
(GSA) to purchase the equipment. GSA orally granted a DPA
on March 15, confirmed in writing by letter dated March 21.
The DPA required EPA to solicit at least six specified
firms in order to determined whether the Univac offer repre-
sented the lowest cost to the Government.
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