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B-201642.3,B-201642.4 1 (1983-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadljn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0* THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION •OF THE UNITED BTATES WABHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-201642.3; B-201642.4 DATE: October 21, 1983 MATTER OF: Four-Phase Systemsi Inc.-- second request for reconsideration DIGEST: Prior decision finding that agency's determination of minimum needs for computer systems was unreasonable based on GAO audit reports finding that workload projections and studies on which determination was based were erroneous is affirmed; however, recommendation of decision that systems not be purchased is withdrawn because it is not in the government's best interest. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation, and Small Business Systems, Inc. (SBS), request reconsideration of our decision in Four-Phase Systems, Inc.--request for reconsideration, B-201642.2, April 22, 1983, 83-1 CPD 430, in which we found that the FAA's justification of its statement of minimum needs in request for proposals No. DTFA01-80-R-31147, for regional computer systems, was not reasonable. We recommended that the FAA decline to renew the leases at the end of the lease term and that FAA not purchase the systems. We affirm our decision, but we withdraw the recommendation, based on new information establishing that the recommended corrective action is not in the government's best interest. In Four-Phase Systems, Inc. B-201642, July 22, 1981, 81-2 CPD 56, we denied Four-Phase Systems, Inc.'s (Four- Phase), protest that, among other things, the FAA was pro- curing computing capacity in excess of its minimum needs. We found that Four-Phase had not carried its burden of showing that the FAA's justification of its minimum needs was unreasonable. On April 5, 1982, the FAA awarded a contract to SBS. On April 20, 1982, GAO issued an interim audit report which concluded that the FAA had not adequately justified its need for the computer systems based on workload 026901~ 7,Y

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