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B-208670.2,B-208809.2 1 (1983-07-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadler0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECI9ION , * OF THE UNITE0 STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-208670.2, B-208809.2 DATE: July 12, 1983 MATTER OF: Charta, Incorporated--Reconsideration DIGEST: Although awardee allegedly relied on understanding that good performance would result in exercise of contract options, awardee's request for reconsideration of recommended corrective action (nonexercise of option) is denied where there is no show- ing of an error of fact or law and where award, albeit legal, was made in the face of unresolved questions concerning adequacy of competition and reasonableness of price. Charta, Incorporated (Charta), requests reconsideration of the corrective action recommended in our decision, Harris Systems of Texas, Inc.; Anti- Pest Co., Inc., B-208670, B-208809, April 13, 1983, 83-1 CPD 392, wherein we recommended that the Army not exercise the contract's option provisions. Charta, the awardee and incumbent contractor, contends: (1) that it relied to its detriment on an understanding that good performance would result in exercise of the options, (2) our concerns regarding adequacy of competition and reasonableness of price were unreasonable; and (3) that exercise of the options is in the best interests of the Government. We deny the request for reconsideration. The standard applied to requests for reconsideration is whether the requester has convinc- ingly shown errors of fact or law in our earlier deci- sion. See Corbetta Construction Company of Illinois, Inc., 55 Comp. Gen. 972, 975 (1976), 76-1 CPD 240. Wile we generally do not consider the contentions of incumbent contractors that an agency should exercise a contract option, C.G. Ashe Enterprises, 56 Comp. Gen. 397 (1977) 77-1 CPD 166, we are considering Charta's request for reconsideration since it is aimed at the propriety of our recommending nonexercise of the

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