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B-212733 1 (1983-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlhm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: v THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHI NGTON. O.C. 20548 FILE: B-212733 DATE: September 12, 1983 MATTER OF: Hamilton Sorter Co., Inc. DIGEST: The fact that the incumbent contractor did not receive solicitation for the current procurement does not constitute compelling reason to resolicit agency needs where no showing has been made that adequate competition was not obtained, that prices obtained were unreasonable, or that failure was the result of a deliberate or conscious attempt to preclude the incumbent contractor from competing. Hamilton Sorter Co., Inc. (Hamilton), the incumbent contractor for the General Services Administration (GSA) 1982-1983 contract for certain automatic data processing equipment furniture, storage, and transportation items requests that the GSA solicitation for the 1983-1984 contract be canceled and that the procurement be resolicited so that it might bid on the procurement. HPTilton states that either the contracting agency failed to beCd it a copy of the solicitation or the solicitation was sent to it but not received. The closing date for the solicitation was July 1, 1983. Hamilton learned of the solicitation and its closing date on August 9. Since it is clear from the protester's initial submission that the protest is without merit, the matter is decided without obtaining an agency report. 21 C.F.R. § 21.3(g) (1983). The failure of a contracting agency to solicit a potential supplier or the failure of that supplier to receive the solicitation sent to it by the agency--even where the supplier is the incumbent contractor for the current year contract--so as to preclude it from competing on a procurement does not constitute a compelling reason to require the resolicitation of that procurement where, as here, it has not been shown that adequate competition was

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