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B-194584 1 (1979-08-09)

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              .       >THE   COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION                OF   THE   UNITED STATES
                        WASHINGTON, D.C. 205419(
                  NI TED


FILE: B-194584                DATE: August 9, 1979

MATTER  OF:   Eastman Kodak Company


DIGEST:

1.   When procuring agency, after receiving
     best and final offers, decides to evaluate
     costs over expected useful life of equip-
     ment, it should amend solicitation; in life
     cycle costing, offerors must have adequate
     notice of evaluation method and cost pro-
     jections must be reasonable.


2.   Alleged antitrust violations are for con-
     sideration by Department of Justice, not
     GAO.

3.   While suspension of work during protest
     may be desirable, decision is for con-
     tracting agency; if it refuses, protester
     may seek action by Federal court.

     Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) protests the award
of a contract for 16 millimeter roll film reader-printers
to 3M Business Products Sales, Inc. (3M) under a solicita-
tion issued by the Naval Regional Procurement Office,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The protest involves the
Navy's evaluation of Kodak's offered price over the
expected 8-year life of its equipment.

     We find that the Navy did not adequately advise
offerors of its cost evaluation procedures: it used
Federal Supply Schedule rates, rather than estimates
requested in the solicitation, to evaluate maintenance
costs and projected operating and maintenance costs
over the 8-year expected useful life of the equipment,
without ever indicating that this would be done. We are
sustaining the protest for this reason.

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