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B-212979.3 1 (1986-04-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmhe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,OLL94aCt THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES o WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-212979.3 DATE: April 22, 1986 MATTER OF: Centennial Computer Products, Inc.-- Reconsideration and Claim for Proposal DIGEST: Preparation Costs 1. GAO affirms prior reconsideration decision sustaining protest against the rejection of the protester's offer based on the results of a second benchmark from which the agency con- cluded that the protester violated the terms of the solicitation by fine tuning its com- puter equipment and by failing to protect against loss of data in case of a power failuce. GAO rejects the agency's argument that comparison of the first and second benchmarks supports its position since there were significant changes made in running the second benchmark and there are other logical, acceptable explanations for the second benchmark results. 2. Claim for costs incurred in preparing proposal and the benchmarking of equipment in a negotiated fixed-price procurement for the lease of computer equipment is sustained where the claimant, one of two offerors, was eliminated before the submission of best and final offers through unreasonable action by the contracting agency. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requests that we reconsider our decision in Centennial Computer Products, Inc.--Reconsideration, B-212979.2, Aug. 22, 1985, 85-2 C.P.D. 208, in which we sustained, on reconsideration, the protest by Centennial Computer Products, Inc. (Centen- nial), of the IRS's rejection of its proposal and elimina- tion from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. IRS-83-053. The RFP was for the lease of tape, disk, and cache/disk subsystems to enhance the computer system at the IRS's Detroit Data Center. Also, Centennial claims the proposal preparation costs it incurred in connection with the procurenent. We affirn our decision, and we sustain Centennial's claim.

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