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B-200660.2 1 (1981-05-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjkc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0,,LERt 0 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL CECDSION OF THE UNITED STATES WAS H IN GTO N, 0. C . 20548 FILE: B-200660.2 4 e3 TE: May 19, 1981 MATTER OF: Contra CSsta Elec ric, Inc. 'Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Decision that contract experience of proposed subcontractor may be used in determining whether bidder/prime contractor meets solicitation experience requirement when bidder was also prime contractor on previous similar contracts is affirmed since protester did not show that GAO improperly applied key precedent. 2. Request for conference is denied, since Bid Protest Procedures do not explicitly provide for conference on reconsiderations of decisions, and matter can be resolved without conference. Contra Costa Electric, Inc. (Contra Costa), requests reconsideration of our decision in Contra Costa Electric, Inc., B-200660, March 16, 1981, 81-1 CPD 196. in that decision,we found that the experi- ence of a proposed subcontractor could be considered in determining whether the bidder met an experience requirement in the solicitation, if the bidder had been the prime contractor with the proposed subcon- tractor on the contracts relied on to satisfy the experience requirement. In reaching that result, we relied on 39 Comp. Gen. 173 (1959). Contra Costa contends that we misapplied the decision in 39 Comp. Gen. 173. The protester points out that the solicitation in that case specifically provided that subcontractors' experience could be used to determine bidders' experience, while in the present case the solicitation provision refers only to the contractor. Therefore, Contra Costa asserts, a fair reading of 39 Comp. Gen 173 would be that

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