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B-192912 1 (1978-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduly0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE \t WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ,OFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL B-192912 Mr. Philip G. Read 'CT 1 7 1978 * Director of Federal Procurement Regulations Federal Supply Service General Services Administration Washington, D.C. 20405 Dear Mr. Read: By letter dated September 13, 1978, you transmitted for our comment proposed changes to Federal Procurepent * Regulations (FPR) 1-l. 103-3,/1-1.l103-6,i-.10,4 and 1-2.202-1. You indicate that the intent of these proposed changes is to make the FPR uniform and consistent in its requirements for the publicizing of procurement information with the Defense Acquisition Regulation (DAR). Under the proposed change to FPR l-l.1003-3(a)rthe publication of advance notice of an agency's interest in a given field of research and development in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) would be discretionary. The proposed regulation states if the contracting officer considers the existing bidder's mailing list to include a sufficient number of concerns to obtain adequate competition, he need not consider publicizing the agency's interest. This does not appear to accomplish the objective of making FPR consistent with DAR as DAR i-i00374(a)Irequires the publication of notices in the CBD and there is no in- * dication that the DAR provision will be changed. In the interest of maximizing competition, we believe that advance notices of an agency's interest in a given field of research and development should always be published in the CBD unless national security considerations prohibit such publication. We do not believe the decision to pub- licize should be affected by the size of the existing bid- der's mailing list.

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