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                              0@L   7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL

SDECISION                             OF THE UNITED        STATES
                                      WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548



              FILE:  B-201176.2             DATE: September 16, 1981

              MATTER OF: Panafax Corporation - Reconsideration


              DIGEST:


              1.   Prior decision is affirmed where
                   no error of law or fact is shown.

              2.   GAO recommended that contract to
                   lease facsimile machines, which
                   will expire September 30, 1981,
                   be terminated and award made to
                   only other offeror. Since it will
                   take until October for new contrac-
                   tor to deliver its machines, GAO
                   will not object to agency's imple-
                   mentation of recommendation by recent
                   award of new contract with opera-
                   tions to begin on October 1, and
                   simply allowing original awardee's
                   contract to expire on September 30.

              3.   Request for conference on reconsider-
                   ation is denied where matter can be
                   resolved promptly without ccnference.


                   Rapicom, Inc. requests that we reconsider our
              decision in Panafax Corporation, B-201176, June 22,
              1981, 81-1 CPD 515. We sustained Panafax's protest
              against the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) award
              of a contract to Rapicom for the lease of 72 facsim-
              ile machines because IRS' report demonstrated that
              Panafax was prejudiced by improper disclosures made
              to Rapicom by agency personnel prior to the submis-
              sion of best and final offers. We recommended that
              1the contract with Rapicom be terminated and award
              made to Panafax, the only other offeror.



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