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B-176575 1 (1973-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablai0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .RETRnCTLD - Not to be relesed outide the Genera 3 Accountng Office except on the basis of specific approval OULER 0 by the Office of Congresso na elatf ins a record Of Which is NT keh, OAS RELEASED 7 / B-176575 JA '~Idj Dear Mr. Chairman: N Your letter dated November 2, 1972, requested that we verify w ether h rocuremen e ations prohibit .jw ardig contrts for services of the type in, whichvalue eg fgrm st_,q lzier'Afrding to your letter, a local value engineering consultant had advised you that this was prohibited and you understood that the General Services Administration (GSA) had recently declined a con- / tract for this reason. Your letter further requested that, if this prohibition in the regulations does exist, we recom- mend corrective measures that appear desirable. We could find nothing in the regulations prohibiting the award of contracts to firms specializing in value engineering consultant services. An agency acquires such services through its normal procurement process, just as it acquires other pro- fessional services. We discussed with GSA officials their agency's position on procuring value engineering consultant services. In a written response to our inquiry, the Acting Assistant General Counsel, Public Buildings Division, GSA, said that GSA does not regard the regulations as prohibiting award of contracts for value engineering services. The response noted that GSA had contracted for value engineering services in the past, pursuant to the procedural requirements of the regulations, and plans to acquire such services in the future. Following is an example of GSA's procedure in contract- ing with firms specializing in value engineering consultant services. On October 5, 1971, the Public Buildings Service, GSA, invited 62 firms to submit proposals for developing a program to train GSA regional personnel in applying value en- gineering to the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of Federal buildings. GSA files show that it received 14 proposals before the bid opening date, all of which it considered responsive. A panel evaluated the pro- posals for technical competence on the basis of specific cri- teria. After the panel had ranked the proposals according to

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