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B-178508 1 (1973-10-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaddj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: * 1' C0OjMUOU.ER QGENcflAL tij3V K .UNITED UTh9E ' It At WA2AMh1P4Mr. LIZ's /0048 ----- }b178508 October 23, t973 The Uc4wabvxe Donald. oJolmoon JMliniatrator, Veterais Administtion DeL Hr. J'oh nYont By npolt 31-0vdted $ay 2, X97% wu DIrector, Bgrp!Y service, Depfwaent of Medicine andEitwOyu v erted cn tnhe(prots of Charle .J. Dispenza & Associates (Dptnnit)s tet -thedeter- minat.mrn that ith bid was nonrespondVV to tIxvitation for bid; (.xM) H2-60-03, issue4 br the Vterans Adminitration (VA) to the VA Hospitfl at Ban A.tonio, Texu. The XV'), issued Match tj ,1973, called for peveral :toms of lawnry equilmnat, incldia v 2 flatwork ironer (&tern 4) in tccordance vith VA speoification X-4i2 dated Janur 30, 19A, as amuniM Jusr 19, 1973, and tA wpredor- teeder (it. 5). It,= 5 ma s tbsequently rieleted from thu D, svinc. VA decided to procurt the .stem from Amaricaa Lamdty achinez on a sole-source basi.. DIrpenz' a low bid on item offered a fltcn stea= rol3,xxironer. iovever, section 3.7.1.3 of VA specification x-a1,1 required the Iwe of a steam chest vith the ironer to the exclunjion of the stoum..rollex type ironer 'atd by seDi za. Amendsment 49, dxed JwUary 19, X 973 to the VA opx oification tulde new paragraph 1.2 'hich imposed a requireant thot a size 2 ironer produce a mini= of 900 sheotn per hour. Acordingly, Dipetmal bid on the Titn rotter Ironer was detewmined to )nw nonrenponevie because the type of ironei offcrn, did not meet Vie design requirement for a steam ,,hest. Since 5-t rea determined thea there vas an urgent need for the ironer* awnd for item 4 was mads to A rican Laund=wyMachinery on Jume 25# 1973, Whle it tw. unnecessarr to consider the merita 6f tie convention An that case, the matter of the &Ueged estrictiveneas of the VA specification w raised initially by Dispenza in B,,178341, July 9, 1973. The file rontains a letter dated April 3, 1973, tram the Ctief, Uarketin3 DtPivicn for Medical Equipmnts to Dispenzat, recognitit\% that the requirmnt for a stet chest restricted comptiticn to only twv manufacturers* The letter further stated that: * * * our Special Requirements Section, Supply Seorvice Veterann& Idinibtration Central Office, and Duildixj )anageat msnt Oe ice Veterans Administration Central Office have doternin.%d t'hat a chest type ironer is the only type that wi perform ,be neces-ry ironing of sheets * * *, 1 . 9 *' * . a.- * a. a.- - _.-i ,I L P ,!

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