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B-200695.2,B-200696.2 1 (1981-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjzf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1oLI • OLz •' THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL fDECISION OF TOHE UNITI STATED , . ~ WASHINGTON, D. C, 20548 iFILE: B-200695.21 B-200696,2 DATE: December 30, 1981 MATTER OF: Dictaphone Corporation -- Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Where the subject of a protest involved a potentially recurring problem of the proper procedures to be followed when employing life cycle cost analysis in evaluating responses to solicitation, it presented an issue of sufficient importance to warrant consideration on its merits even where the protest was untimely filed, 2. Where the evidence offered by a party urg- ing reconqideration of a prior decision fails to present any new facts or identify errors of law sufficient to justify a re- versal or modification ot the initial de- cision, that decision is affirmed. Dictaphone Corporation requests that we reconsider our decision in Lanier Business Products, 60 Comp. Gen. 306 (1981), 81-1 CPD 188,t in which we sustained protests by Lanier 'of two solicitations issued by the Veterans Administration (VA). In requesting reconsideration of our decision, Dictaphone, the awardee under both solici- tations, argues that Lanier's protest was in part un- timely and that Lanier had not been prejudiced by the deficiencies we observed because it knew in advance that life cycle cost analysis would be employed by i Kthe VA in its cost evaluations. Our decision in Lanier, supra, dealt with two dif- ferent VA solicitations for dictation equipment where life cycle cost analysis was employed. The first ', I solicitation was issued by the VA Regional Office, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and contained no Ii - --.. . rT. . 7 . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . .. ... n. . . A I

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