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B-201686,B-201828 1 (1981-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjep0001 and id is 1 raw text is: c4LET NER AL THE CZMT 0 QE DECISION (. , '. OF THE UNITED STATEB WASHINGTON, . C. 205463 FILE: B-201686, B-20l828 DATE: March 9, 1981 MATTER OF:: Tenavision, Inc. ~-Reconsideration DIGEST: t ~ Request for reconsideration is denied since prior decision is not shown to have been founded on error of law or fact. Tenavision, Inc. (TI),.requests reconsideration of our decision in Tenavision, Inc., B-201868, B-201828, February 3, 1981, 81-1 CPD __,which 1 summarily denied its protests against award of con- tracts for the rental and maintenance of washers and dryers at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In our decision, we disagreed with TI's argument that the Government should set forth a maximum specified age for equipment which bidders may propose since the agency determined that no age limitation was required so long as the equip- ment was in good working order. In its request for reconsideration, TI states that it finds it impossible to believe that we have singled out washing machines and dryers as an item tha. aybe bid on without any age limits. It is the function of the procuring activity, not our Office, to determine its minimum needs. We have stated that specifications should only prescribe the minimum standards to which articles required by the Government shall conform. Since the agency has determined that no age limitation is required for washers and dryers so long as the equipment is in good working order, we find no lepal basis to ques- tion the Government's determination of its minimum needs. TI has offered no evidence not previously considered in support of its request and has failed I t~

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