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B-202813.2 1 (1982-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadklz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4t - . - . * - -/ - --a - .-. . ': a .. .•- a,- S 7v6 r COMPTROi.ER GNIERAL OECIBION . v'tAW OF TH! UNITED MTATUm \%: >1' WASHNO37oN, O.C. 20540 .'./ FILL': B-20281392 DATE: July 7, 1982 MATThR OF: Sperry Univac -- Reconsideration DIGEST: Agency statement that it would be unrealistic rN to expect it to exercise all options within a two-year period, even though the evaluation criteria provided for evaluation on the basis of option exercise by the 24th month, does K4 not mean that the criteria themselves were - unrealistic ,)r that a more reasonable basis for evaluation existed. Sperry Univac requests reconsideration of our decision, Sperry Univac, B-202813, March 22, 1982, 82-1 CPD 264p deny ng perry's protest of the re- jection of its low offer and award to the second low offeror, Paradyne Corporation, under request for proposals No. SSA-RFP-80-0253 issued by the Social Security Administrtotion (SSA). We concluded that the coutracting officer prop- erly rejected Sperry's revised best and final offer under this solicitation for telecommunication termi- , nals because it did not conferm to the maintenance pricing structure mandated by the solicitation and, further, that SSA was not required to reopen discus- sions with Sperry because that firm's revised best and final offer deviated significantly from its earlier proposals. 5', Sperry contends that our decision ignored its I) argument that the evaluation criteria were defective. This defect in the solicitation, Sperry argues, .1,3 only came to light in SSA's report on the protest, when SSA stated that the solicitation provision . indicating-that for evaluation purposes all options .? would be considered exercised in month 24 was un- 11. realistic and that the agency never intended to 1.

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