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B-203882.3 1 (1982-10-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkre0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION OF THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-203882. 3 DATE: October 15, 1982 MATTER OF: Amdahl Corporation--Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Prior decision, in which protester failed to demonstrate that agency did not fulfill its obligation to ascertain possibility of alternate sources, is affirmed. Burden is on protester to show that agency erred. Protester's continuing inability to identify alternate sources confirms--rather than refutes--agency's determination that no alternate sources for software were available. 2. Contention that protester's offer to commit in writing to provide software support was sufficient to constitute alternate source that agency had to consider is without merit. Agency's requirement was for a present, existing, functioning capability to provide support. We agree with agency's apparent conclusion that offer of commit- ment, without evidence of capability, was insufficient. Amdahl Corporation (Amdahl) has requested reconsidera- tion of our decision in the matter of Amdahl Corporation, B-203882.2, May 5, 1982, 82-1 CPD 421. In that decision, we denied a protest by Amdahl against an invitation for bids issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the acquisition of an International Business Machines (IBM) computer. Amdahl contended that the IFB was unduly restrictive because it did not permit consideration of compatible non-IBM computers. We found that NASA's requirement for an IBM computer was reasonably based and not unduly restrictive because it was based on a requirement for software support which NASA reasonably concluded was avail- able only on an IBM computer. Amdahl contends that our prior decision was factually and legally in error, mainly on the statement in our decision that:

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