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B-177896 1 (1973-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadoh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a Li a r COMWTROL1ER GE4ERAL. OF Tim UINUTED sTaT u -rrr Hay 30, 1973 Merritt Le Murry, Equtn 173D0 H tret, 3M., Suite 515 Vahinam, Dm , 2Q036 Dtr r. lrr Ve refer to letter dated Jnuary 24, 1973p frIcymr client, Hlatfcmal treid-4n Corportion, and subsequent cornrspotdunce,\pitesttng tbhe trejee tion of e. bidn.under sa\les ivitatto iao. 3P3S-73,,.12, is-ued by Ngicon 3 ..,. ProPerty langczent mnd Dfcposal Serv .e, Generol Senes Adrinistration (NSA). The basic issue presented by the protest is wliethier the grounds few thU dimc tirmary actim taken by the contrating oficer eotitut cogent or crrpe1Ung rems to snpport the rejectio tf vfl bids. The Invitation nu sent to 16 prnpeetitn bmeru iquesttg qwaticns for the ''rchae of aproxttely 300,VO rloa oi' used)inetic tape. T'e fitg,.e was the sciated quantity to becen asn!able d9ub _g the 1973.-alen- dar ye' no the iational Aronatics and Smce ritticn (MBA). Item Wo. 3 of the invitatibn statea that &y or,,emz inin no ay -yrs teemtis eattuate [SQO,QOO reej and pay~emit ,'uut be u~ue a&tctuaJ reem4 or taps deli,%red. The tape ma attcred ont exealbdwbi, tennecctraot .bals for the period Janmur 1 throh fecesber 31, 197i'3. Quottuticma wVre required on L pr-reel basis. The tiz an dtk of tt !td cperdkg wus Jsrrary b, 1973P at 11 wa. 3.wal tint, At the tir ipeified, the two bids recelved wnt opened aMd rtoded.. atol Tread-in Corporation'n bid of $0.057 per ev. va the high id tollmcd by that of Ibtert 'Wrk at 40,0757. Dar~ng the aSterrn of% . jwwa 5, 19?, &lte bid aa recetwd trma AK P felprtoes of North' Llyood1, Oltfonmp ia tthe aait of $osi6s per reel. Thebid mait. i opened by miata.e and n& returned to I VAK stqetn baflni Mtee seeivcd too late foe c aoideration.- After concderina the bids, the cmt .ctng ofthn determinedtS at fl bids shouid be rejected in the best interwt of the Coe*mnt. SOe stat tint her decdtIsi van baed upo 5 5mtts o r aareh of the surpla'z toq. sirket. Bs dtacowre4 that the experimen In other G%\,s\ r m had' been *hat use4 innetio ctp abmcu.U bring utAyre frcm 32 to 90 costa per On Jura,. 17, 1973, prior to the rejection of all bids, oflcials of OU \an 3 m with ioffcer of Satioml Tnd* -i Oorpomtmo atIts P Luii1)DECISION L-, o N16 1 o . 1.., tF iisj

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