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B-193693 1 (1979-08-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhlx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION ..2 OF THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: B-193693 DATE: August 3, 1979 MATTER OF: Lanier Business Products, Inc.-- equ(Aes/ b/Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Upon reconsideration, GAO will consider information available to procuring activity concerning its legitimate needs not submitted during pendency of protest. 2. Where legitimate needs of Government can be satisfied from only single source, law does not require that those needs be compromised in order to obtain competition. In the matter of Lanier Business Products, Inc., B-193693, April 3, 1979, 79-1 CPD 232, we sustained Lanier's protest because the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) had failed to show a need for the background mode duplicating requirement (specification 6) and the subscript, superscript on screen display requirement (specification 12) for text processing equipment. We recommended revision of the specifications and resolicitation. The ICC requested reconsideration of our decision and submitted detailed information concerning the propriety of its specifications. We withdrew our recom- mendation; however, we suggested that the ICC review the need for the on screen requirement before it utilizes it again for any future procurement. Interstate Commerce Commission--Reconsideration, B-193693, June 11, 1979. Lanier Business Products, Inc. (Lanier), now requests reconsideration of our June 11, 1979, decision. In urging reconsideration, Lanier states that the detailed support submitted by the ICC was not new material. In fact, the rationale for the specifications provided by the ICC was submitted in conjunction with another protest filed by Lanier, i.e., Lanier Business Products, Inc., et al., B-192432, February 9, 1979, 79-1 CPD 88. Hence, the ICC failed to comply with the Bid Protest Procedures for reconsideration since the ICC's information was previously considered. See 4 C.F.R. S 20.9(a) (1979).

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