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B-183964 1 (1978-01-27)

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            COMPTROLLER~ GENERAL OF~ THE UNtTED STATES80
SU          ~WASHINGTON. D.C. 2OU4B1




i-.1 3964                                  JAN 2 7 1978




The Hionorable
The Secretary of the interior

Dear Mir. Secretary:

      W~e refer to the natter of Plarth Science Resre-rc!-,
 Inc. (1USR , -163964, regardinc- United States -QGeoloci-
 cal Survev (1J$.GI) RFP 150W, for 140 biaxial borehole


      N1thoucah initially or'qed ns a bid protest of the
 Award of a contrafc-t to Kinemr.--trics, Inc. (see our letter-
 d3ated Piny '30, 1.975, ane, you11r letters- daite( October 29,
 1975, and September 16, 10975), the complainant stvbse-
 quently recoordzed. that practicFA1 consiaeration . r're-
 vented contract terninat.inn or other remeiial relief.
 insteaelt It requssted an inventigation ofLj3s    rcie
 ment nracticos is they~ rei1-:ted to roie-ctto-n of thbe E-A3P
 proposnj. Moreover bassO on I-he re-cord as initially
 develoned throuoth the p.rotest rprocess, we cu~  o
 determirne wetboer the PAv~ard selectionl had 1been protnerly
 conducted, and, we found it nocessary to exnani the
 soneo of incauir'; to include or.-Fite insr'ecticns of
 douments at, the : C U$ rocur ing off ice and at .Autnetics,
 faciiitiet 'at Arnarheim, afn.

      As backsrouci, t!,e tihtr-c roanrec' are instru-
 m~ents used in nea-su rinq chrnnc'es in the orientation or '1tiJlt'
 of the earth's crust, in reference to the local gravitationail
 vector, in conjunction with experfrments to stu'wv ferth o-
 roents associated with earth-qakes np,: volcanic eruption.r.
 A typical USCS inst4-allation PnltailiT i  ntrt. of an
 instrument in a hole extending some 1 1/2 meters telow th~e
 bottom of a 1 1/2 meter deep pit, Although hiqjhly sensitivet
 instrumentation is reauired, it also tmust be ruaoed enovab
 for use in the field ard caibln of unattended battery
 operation over perios i       sexes of' a Year under con-litiono
 which make servicing 6ifficalt or- imrpossible.

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