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B-194322 1 (1979-12-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhts0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -L-~f \-RA THE COMPTROLLET GENERAL p DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-194322 DATE: December 3, 1979 MATTER OF Infoatics, Inc.--Reconsideration o DIGEST: /$ .29('2er77 '~' Prior decision is affirmed because protester has not shown any errors of fact or law in conclusions that agency had reasonable basis for negotiating and solicitation reasonably notified potential offerors that award would be based on low-priced, technically acceptable offer. Informatics, Inc., requests reconsideration of a Informatics, Inc., B-194322, August 28, 1979, 58 Comp. Gen. , 79-2 CPD 159, on the grounds that the decision vits wrong in sustaining the determination of the Depart- 2 ment of Commerce to negotiate the contract for certain data processing services and in holding that the request for proposals (RFP) contained adequate evaluation criteria.) The August 28 decision is affirmed for the reasons indicated below. Informatics statAs that negotiation is not necessary because Commerce drafted specifications for the same services in the past and it is not impossible to draft adequate specifications) Informatics contends that the purpose of the negotiation is to delve into the responsibility of prospective. offerors and that the negotiation process is being used only to obtain with the offers the technical proposal that was requested after the opening of bids when the procurement was advertised. Informatics states that changing the time for the submission of the technical proposal does not affect the adequacy of the specifi a ns. s s t oughly copdered in the August 28 decision. It wa rejected ecause Commerce showed that all output situations could not be specified and each offeror's technical proposal had to be reviewed to -79&~~)~01Pb

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