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B-213059.2 1 (1984-07-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlua0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THU COMPTROLLUR SENERAL DECIION OP THE UNITED ETATE8 WASNI NGTON. 0 C 20540 FILE: B-213059.2 DATE: July 9, 1984 MATTER OF: Intercomp Company--Reconsideration - I DIGEST: Prior decision is affirmed on reconsideration where the protester has not shown any error of fact or law which would warrant reversal of the decision. Intercomp Company requests reconsideration of our decision, Intercomp Company, B-213059, May 22, 1984, 84-1 CPD 1I 540, denying its protest against the Depart- ment of the Navy's cancellation of a solicitation for portable aircraft weighing scales. We held that, even though the Small Business Administration had issued Intercomp a certificate of competency to perform the contract, the contracting agency properly canceled the solicitation because the specifications did not adequately describe the agency's needs. In requesting reconsideration, the protester, who submitted the lowest price in response to the solici- tation, basically repeats its original contention that the defects in the specifications were minor and did not provide a proper basis for cancellation. Intercomp also poses two additional bases for reconsideration. The first is that the Navy, in responding to the protester's submissions, failed to file its comments within the time limitations prescribed by our Bid Protest Procedures, 4 C.F.R. part 21 (1984). The second basis is that in finding reasonable the Navy's position that the solici- tation's specifications were materially defective, we failed to address the agency's alleged willingness to make award to another bidder under the original solici- tation anyway. We affirm our prior decision. Our Office will not reverse or modify a decision unless a protester's request for reconsideration specifies information not previously considered or

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