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B-219768 1 (1985-09-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduww0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CITATnm omi~t DELAYED DISTRIBUTIOIT - .COl COMPTROLLER 'GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES . 7 WASHINGTON'D.C. 20548 r B-219768 September 18, 1985 The Honorable Mack Mattingly United States Senator 380 Interstate North, Suite 1,95 Atlanta, Georgia 30339 Dear Senator Mattingly: This is in response to your letter to our Office dated July 22, 1985, asking that we review concerns of federal employees at Fort Gordon, Georgia, regrding our decision in Pan Am World Services, Inc., B-215829YJune 24, 1985, 85-1 C.P.D. ii 712 (copy enclosed). We held in the Pan Am decision that the Army had conducted an improper cost homparison in deciding whether to contract for services at Fort Gordon, and we recommended that the Army recalculate the estimated cost of continuing in-house performance and then compare that cost with Pan Am's proposal. This new cost comparison, not yet finalized, could result in an award to Pan Am which, in turn, apparently could result in the displacement of a number of the federal employees now performing the covered services. Some employees assert that any such award would be based on allegedly outdated cost data, and may not result in the lowest cost to the government. Our decision and recommendation in Pan Am were necessitated by our finding that the Army's estimated cost for in-house performance of the work had not been calculated in accordance ith the procedures outlined in the OMB Circular A-764ost Comparison Handbook governing the pro- curement and that, as a result, the in-house cost unfairly had been materially understated. Under these circumstances, the only appropriate remedy was to conduct a new comparison using a properly calculated in-house estimate and decide whether to award a contract based on the new result. As with any bid protest, ,our decision was based on all infor- mation and arguments presented by the protester and contracting agency. Our Bid Protest Regulations provide for reconsideration of our decisions where one of the interested parties timely -I

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