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B-201642.2 1 (1983-04-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlas0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ' / / 0 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION 0 ? ,. OF THE UNITED STATE8 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE:B-201642.2 DATE: April 22, 1983 MATTER OF: Four-Phase Systems, Inc.-- request for reconsideration DIGEST: Earlier decision denied protest that agency was procuring computing capacity in excess of its minimum needs because agency provided studies justifying needs and protester did not show that basis for needs was unreasonable. Subsequent GAO audit found that studies were erroneously performed and reached incorrect conclusions. Request for reconsideration based on that information is sustained, and prior decision is modified accordingly. Four-Phase Systems, Inc. (Four-Phase), requests reconsideration of our decision in Four-Phase Systems, Inc., B-201642, July 22, 1981, 81-2 CPD 56, in which we denied Four-Phase's protest under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTFA01-80-R-31147 for computer systems for 10 automatic data processing centers issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation. In that decision, we considered Four-Phase's allegations that the RFP was ambiguous, that the requirements stated therein were in excess of the FAA's minimum needs, and that it did not include all costs that should be evaluated. We denied the protest on all grounds. Concerning the ground that is relevant to this request for reconsideration, we found that Four-Phase had not met its burden of showing that the FAA's justification of its minimum needs was without a reasonable basis. A contract was awarded to Small Business Systems, Inc. (SBS), on April 5, 1982. On April 20, 1982, GAO issued a report titled Examination of the Federal Aviation Administration's Plan for the National Airspace System--Interim Report (AFMD- 82-66), in which we examined, among other things, the FAA's justification and handling of the procurement that had been the subject of our July 22, 1981, decision. In that report, we found that the FAA had procured computing power far in excess of its needs. We recommended that FAA cancel the contract awarded_ toSBS .

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