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B-220582.3 1 (1986-03-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmga0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TE COMPTROLLER 01E°NERAL DECISION . • oP THE UNITEO STATE8 WSHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-220582.3 DATE: March 21, 1986 MATTER OF: Canon U.S.A., Inc.--Request for Reconsideration DIGEST: Prior decision is affirmed where the protester has not shown in its request for reconsideration that GAO erred in concluding that an agency's award of a purchase order for six microfilm reader/printers to other than the low priced supplier under a Federal Supply Schedule contract on the basis of greater maintenance availability was a legally sufficient justification for the award and did not constitute an improper fracturing of the agency's real needs. Canon U.S.A., Inc., requests reconsideration of our decision in National Micrographics Systems, Inc; Canon U.S.A., Inc., B-220582 et al., Jan. 9, 1986, 86-1 CPD if • In that decision, we concluded that a contracting agency's determination to purchase six microfilm reader/ printers from other than the low priced supplier under a mandatory, multiple-award Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract was supported by a sufficient legal justification in accordance with the applicable regulations. We also concluded that the protesters had not prevailed in their assertion that the agency's acquisition constituted an improper fracturing of a much larger requirement with the intent to evade the maximum order limitation stipulated in the FSS contract. Canon urges that our prior decision is legally erroneous on several points and, therefore, should be reversed. We affirm that decision. The Bureau of the Public Debt (Bureau), Department of the Treasury, had identified a need for microfilm reader/ printers utilizing the newer plain paper technology to replace the reader/printers in current use which require dry silver paper. In order to evaluate the comparative perfor- mance of plain paper reader/printers available for purchase, the Bureau requested various vendors to furnish their C)aW:k07

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