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B-190887 1 (1978-01-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfpz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I c THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISICN .OF THEk UNITED BTATES ZASHINGTON. D.C. 205413 FILE: B-190887 MA7TER OF: DATE: January 17, 1978 R & 0 Indust ies, Inc. DIGEST: Protest regarding rejection of production samples under allegedly fefective specifications is matter of contract administration, riot for resolution under GAO Bid ?rotest Procedures. R 0 Industries, Inc. (R & 0) has protested to our Office tugarding the Generil Services Admiristration's (GSA) testing of hammers under two paragraphs of Pederal Specification GGG-H-8Gc, dated March 1, 1963, and Interim Amendment 2, dated March 15, 1971. According to R & 0, tests conducted by the firm and by an independent latora- tory produced different results than those conducted by GSA, in which R & 0 hammers failed a pull apart teat. R & 0 protested to the contracting officer on October 3, 1977, contending that GSA did not test hammers in strict compliance with the specifications and that the tests were not consistent with the end use of the hammers, making any results invalid. R & 0 has suggested to our Office that certain terms used in the specifications should be defined, that the type of equipment to be used foL test- ing should be specified, and thnt test mqthods and criteria for meeting thL specifications should be revised. The hammers Lein- tested are production simples, furnished by R & 0 under existing contracts which R & 0 advis?s us are then being terminated for default. The protest thus involves contract administration and is not subject to resolution under our Bid Protest Procedures. Kaufman DeDell. Printing, Inc.--Reconsideration, B-188054, Octcber 25, 1977, 77-2 CPD 321. Moreover, it was not received in our Office until December 12, 1977, more than a month after GSA denied the firm's request for a chang3e - 1 - *1 * I I 4z I -I . i I I

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