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B-221631.2 1 (1986-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmeb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OlRCIPON . OF THE UNITED STATEN WA SfHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 UITt FILE: B-221631.2 DATE: January 30, 1986 MATTER OF: G&L Oxygen and Medical Supply Services-- Request for Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Request for reconsideration filed more than 1 year after decision is issued is untimely. 2. Agency decision as to whether to exercise contract renewal option is generally a matter of contract administration which is not for review under bid protest function. G&L Oxygen and Medical Supply Services (G&L), alternately protests or requests reconsideration of our decision in G&L Oxygen and Medical Supply Services, B-216489, Dec. 21, 1984, 84-2 CPD I1 686, in connection with the Veterans Administration (VA) decision to award contract No. 631-3-85 for the supply of home oxygen services and the maintenance of all support equipment for home-bound VA beneficiaries. G&L originally protested the award of this contract to another firm by letter dated September 19, 1984. At that time, G&L argued that it submitted the lowest bid and that it should have been awarded the contract. Our decision denied G&L's protest and specifically found that although G&L had submitted the lowest monthly rental cost, an award to another firm was proper since that firm was the low bidder based on the total amount of work to be awarded. We recognized that the VA's evaluation methodology was not specifically set forth in the invitation for bids (IFB), but that the agency's actions were proper in view of the requirement that award be made on the basis of the most favorable cost to the government. G&L states that it only recently became aware that VA would exercise the option under the current contract rather than resolicit. Based on this information, G&L again alleges that the exact basis upon which bids were evaluated was not disclosed to G&L and that the VA did not select the lowest overall bid. 034- ' k1

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