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B-205279.2 1 (1983-01-25)

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                 0      THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION                OF THE UNITEO 8TATES
                        WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548



FILE:      B-205279.2         DATE:   January 25, 1983

MATTER OF:      System Sciences Incorporated--Request
                  for Reconsideration

DIGEST:


  1.   On request for reconsideration, when
       alleged factual errors would not change
       conclusion and all legal arguments
       previously have been considered, GAO
       will affirm prior decision.

  2.   When, in best and final offer, previ-
       ously acceptable technical proposal is
       changed so that it becomes technically
       unacceptable, agency has no obligation
       to reopen discussions, and meaningful-
       ness of earlier discussions is not
       affected by agency's failure to do so.


       System Sciences Incorporated, alleging errors of
  both fact and law, requests reconsideration of our
  decision on its protest regarding the Air Force's
  rejection of an offer for a computerized information
  system to be used in support of the Airborne Warning
  and Control Systems (AWACS) Program Office. Because
  the alleged factual errors would not change our con-
  clusion, and because we previously have considered
  System Sciences' legal arguments, we affirm our
  decision.

       In System Sciences Incorporated, B-205279,
  July 19, 1982, 82-2 CPD 53, we found the Air Force's
  rejection of the protester's proposal proper because,
  in its best and final offer, the firm had substituted
  a pen plotter (used to produce graphic displays, or
  plots, of computer-generated information) for the
  brand name electrostatic plotter specified by the Air
  Force and originally proposed by System Sciences.

       In its request for reconsideration, System
  Sciences first argues that we misstated one of its
  bases of protest, which we characterized as an

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