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B-198910.2 1 (1982-01-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkak0001 and id is 1 raw text is: '~.04 0E4,I I4 - r LDECISJION B-198910.2 DATE: January MATTER OF: Amdahl Corporation- Reconsideration DIGEST: GAO modifies pri(r decision holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) relied upon an inadequate market survey-- a review of another agency's procurement Xor a system .which would not recessarily meet EPA's require- ment -- to justify the purchase of computer, since the General Services Administration (GSA) now states it reviewed the two agencies' requirements and authorized EPA to rely on the other agency's procurement. This fact does not remove the deficiency but transfers responsibility for it to GSA, since EPA was entitled to rely on GSA's authorization, GSA should have known that a review of the other agency's procurement very likely would not suffice as a representative market test. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requests that we reconsider our decision Amdahl Corporation, 8-198910, B-199942, April 27, 198, 81-1 CPD 322, which sustained Amdahl Corporation's protest of EPA's sole- source purchase of an excess Government-leased multi- processor computer from International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). We found that the purchase followed an inadequate market survey of possible alternatives. EPA asserts that the survey and subsequent sole-source purchase conformed with the General Services Adminis- tration's (GSA) instructions in its delegation of pro- curement authority (DPA) to EPA. We remain of the view, however, that the market survey did not adequately re- flect the possible alternatives to a sole-source pur- chase. EPA's market poshls submitted response to a DOE similar computer survey consisted of a review of pro- to the Department of Energy (DOE) in request for pioposals to supply a system. EPA determined that compared THE COMPTROLLER AI INIBRAL OF THE UNITED STATUS WALIHINGTON, 0.0, 20548 FILE; 28, 1982 4 N I I. I *~ I ~'1 ~ IL I, 1?I: * iJI~, II 1 ~D( *< 41~ ~*~1:1K *I q .'~ 4; I' I

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