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B-115369 1 (1978-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtpi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Dic zs - 028 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATEs2 ~ 4 WASHINGTON. D.C. 205' IN RVL mu'R: B-115369 May. 31, 1978 . The Honorable Jack Brooks Chairman, committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Your letter to our. Office dated March 21, 1977, requests that we review the legality of the award of contract No. DOT-TSC-1147 to Kentron-Hawaii, Limited (Kentron), by the Department of Transportation (DOT) because DOT failed to obtain a-delegation of procure- ment authority from the General Services Administra- tion (GSA). The memorandum enclosed with your letter also questions the propriety of the award in view of Civil Service Commission (CSC) regulations regarding contracting for personal services and in view of the possible sole-source procurement. Subsequent discus- sions with the committee staff and a memorandum received here on February 6, 1978, raise certain general ques- tions regarding the applicability of the Brooks Actto similar situations. As stated in our status letter to you dated May 4, 1977, we requested reports from DOT, GSA, Kentron, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Reports received in response to our request together with. the views of our Boston Regional Office (which gathered certain documents and visited the con- tract performance site) and our Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Policy Group in the Financial and General Management Systems Division form.the factual basis for our conclusions.. I. BACKGROUND p . - In 1975, DOT issued a request for proposals (RFP) for 102 man-years of effort to support and operate DOT's hardware and software (previously acquire. in accordance with the Brooks Act,, 40 U.S.C. S 759 (1970)') at '. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: . '

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