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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNIT ED STATES
WASHINGTON. D.= 20548
3477959
OCT 29 1973
tational icmedical Research Fmdatito
Georgetown University Medical Center
3900 Reservoir Road, tW.
Waabington, D. C. 20007
Attention: Dr. Robert S. Ledley
President
091781
Gontemez:
By letter dated October 2, 1973, and prior correspondence,
you protested the award of a contract to the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology (CIT)
by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Develo=ent,
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health, Education
and Welfare. Request for proposals (R]P) lTCM-C-72-3 vas
issued on March 15, 1972, by the Mental Retardation Branch of
NICHD. The solicitation sought proposals for a cost type contract
* * * to develop fully the autoated analysis of chromosomes,
including the new cytogenetic banding technicues, to the point
where it will be available for routine eutomated use in antenatal
and postnatal diagnosis of chromosome disorders and * * * the
development o' a prototype system which can be used in a research
-setting and has the capability for clinical application in
hospitals and Laboratories.
Although you raise many specific arguments, it is generally
your position that JPL either did not propose to do Vnat the
solicitation required, or does not possess the capability to
perform in accrdance with the terms of the solicitation and, in
addition, that the evaluation of the proposals was conducted
improperly. Consequently, you request that the contract with
JPL be canceled and that a contract be awarded to the Nationil
Biomedical Research Foundation (iMF).
pUBLISHED DCZC.ION
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