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B-198448 1 (1980-11-18)

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                        THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECMIIN                 OF THE UNITED STATEB
                     Y, WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548




FILE:                         DATE: November 18, 1980
         B-198448
MATTER OF:
               North American Reporting, Inc.;
               Ace-Federal Reporters, Inc.
DIGEST:


1. Solicitation for recording and transcipt
     services which precludes use of electronic
     tape recording devices on basis of agency
     personnel past experience'with other systems
     and difficulties which concern bidder
     responsibility, thereby excluding monitored
     multimicrophone tape recording system with
     successful record of performance in similar
     proceedings in other agencies which procuring
     activity has neither tested nor used, unduly
     restricts competition.

 2. Solicitation for requirements-type contract
     which fails to include estimates upon which
     bids will be evaluated and to define other
     service delivery basis Upon which bids are
     sought precludes preparation and evaluation
     of bids on equal basis. Solicitation should
     be amended before agency proceeds with pro-
     curement to either include estimates and
     definition or to stipulate ceiling price for
     services in question.

     North American Reporting, Inc. (NAR), and Ace-
 Federal Reporters, Inc. (Ace), have protested against
 alleged deficiencies in the Federal Energy Regulatory
 Commission's (FERC) invitation for bids (IFB) No.
 FERC-80-B-0001 for stenographic reporting services.
 NAR contends that the IFB is unduly restrictive of
 competition because it prohibits the monitored elec-
 tronic recording method of reporting. Ace, on the
 .other hand, asserts that the IFB is ambiguous because
 it does not provide estimates for the evaluation of
 all bid items, define other services for which a

                                    PUCmy. M, DEC ,.,
                                 *  60 Comp. Gen.

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