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B-209884.2 1 (1983-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlls0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION O P THE UNITEO STATEN WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-209884.2 DATE: December 12, 1,983 MATTER OF: Hill Industries, Inc.--Request for Reconsideration DIGEST: Request for reconsideration of decision that an offer to furnish surplus parts was properly rejected is denied where the protester does not show any error of law or fact in the decision that warrant reversal. Hill Industries, Inc. requests reconsideration of our decision, Hill Industries, Inc., B-209884, August 24, 1983, 83-2 CPD 246, in which we denied the firm's protest regard- ing the Air Force's rejection of its offer to furnish 2,308 surplus roller bearings under solicitation No. F34601-82-R- 43329. In that decision, we concluded that in the absence of complete historical data on the surplus parts, the Air Force was not unreasonable in its concern that the parts could not be inspected adequately without incurring damage to critical surfaces. Hill now asserts that it did indeed furnish complete historical data on the parts, and continues to urge that inspection without damage is possible. We see nothing in the firm's request for reconsideration, however, to cause us to reverse our prior decision. Hill asserts that it submitted sufficient historical data on the surplus bearings, which are 12 to 18 years old, to satisfy Defense Acquisition Regulation § 7-104.49 (1976 ed.), which states that an offeror of former government surplus property must include with the offer a complete description of the items, the quantity to be used, the government source, and the date of acquisition. The data that Hill provided consisted of six contract numbers from 1964-69 when the bearings allegedly were purchased by the government, and four surplus sale numbers from 1972-73. Nothing in that data, however, establishes that the bearings had been appropriately inspected during the course of origi- nal manufacture and had been accepted by the government as conforming (or why the bearings were sold as surplus). As we noted in our August 24 decision, the Air Force has been unable to locate its original files on the contracts listed by Hill, probably because they were disposed of pursuant to

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