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B-186425 1 (1976-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddmi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISIONl . . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-186425 DATE: July 26, 1976 MATTER OF: American Drafting and Laminating Company / DIGEST: 1. Use of rotating bid list, whereby not all firms equipped to perform given type printing requirement are solicited for every job that is advertised, is proper where, as in present case, there is adequate competition, reasonable prices and no showing of deliberate intent to exclude bidder. 2. Failure to synopsize procurement in Commerce Business Daily does not provide legal basis for disturbing award where there was adequate competition and there was no intent by procuring activity to exclude protester, or anyone else, from bidding. However, agency advised to comply with such require- ment in future. By telegram of April 27, 1976, as supplemented by letter dated May 26, 1976, American Drafting and Laminating Company (ADL) r protested the award of a contract to another firm under the Government Printing Office's (GPO) program 2389. ADL requested that it be permitted to bid on GPO program 2389 since it was on the GPO bidders list and had recently been awarded a contract for the performance of identical work on GPO Jacket Number 637-947, but had not been solicited to submit a bid on program 2389. However, in its letter of May 26, 1976, ADL states that it does not seek to have its bid considered after award. Accordingly, we do not believe that discussion of this issue is warranted. Program 2389 is an annual requirements contract for the production of books and pamphlets.- The contract was awarded as a result of formal advertising. We are advised by GPO that it rotates the bidders list so that all firms equipped to perform a given type printing require- ment are not solicited for every job that is advertised. Since several hundred firms on the complete list have the capability of performing this contract, it would not be economically feasible to solicit all of them. - 1 -

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