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DECISION O O THIU UNITED UTATIES
L ' WASHINGTON0, D. C. ',0548
FILE: B-199547c3 DATE; December 1, 1981
MATTER OF:.Kirschner Associaters, Inc.--Agency[Request
for Reconsideration
D!WEST:
1 Where initial protest submision raises
issue of imitroper cost realism anaylsis,
additional Istterial8 submitted in sup-
port of timely protest tssue',iill be
considered-, Th additioral sm4terials
only provide the rationale for the pro-
test basis clearly stated in the initial
protest and do not constitute a piecemeal
development of protest ismues.
2. In deciding a protest, GAO is nqt confiued
to issues raised by parties to protest.
W'here procurement deficiency is obvious
from a review of agency's report on protest,
GAO will state views and mAde recommendations
if appropriate.
The Department of Health and Humnan Services (HUS)
requests reconsideration of Kirschn'er Associates', Inb.,
B-199547.2# August 26, 1981, 81-2 QPD 178. In that deci-
sion, we sustained Kirschner' s protest because, among
other things, 'we did not believe that HHS conducted',
proper cost realism analysis of proposals ilcispons
to request for proposals No. ROV-ACYF-80-002, a solic-
itation for training and technical assistance to Head]
Start Proqram grantees,
HHS contends that Kirschner first articulated the
issue of improper cost realism analysis in correspondence
received in our Office several months after the t14nitial
protest submission. *HHS argues that we should rot have
considered the cost realism issue, which was known to
Kirschner at the time of initial protest submission,
because the issue was untimeiy raised under our Bid
Protest Procedures.
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