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B-201630 1 (1981-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvfs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL [DECISION OF.-THE UNITED .8STATES W ASHINGTON 0, C. 20548 FILE: B-201630 DATE: Apr l .15. 1981 MATTER. OF: General Communications.& Electronics, Inc. DIGEST: Cancellation of IFB by contracting. officer because only bid received I was determined to be Unreasonable as to price is not subject to .objection where bid was substan- tially higher than Government estimate and prior contract price for similar work and record dis- closes no evidence of bad faith or fraud on part of contracting *activity in making its deter- minat ion. . General Communications & Electronics, Inc. (GCE) protests the cancellation by the Department of the Army, Fort. Campbell,-Kentucky of invitation Ifor bids (IFB) No. DAKF23-80-B-0120, the second step of a two-step formally advertised procurement for an electronic private automatic branch exchange )(EPABX) And telephone cable system at Blanchfield Army Hospital. Th cancellation of the solicitation, a total small business set-aside, followed a deter- mination by the Army that GCE's bid, the only one received, was unreasonably priced. As its basis for protest, GCE claims: 1) that the cancellation was improper because it results in the unnecessary exposure of its bid price; 2) that, as a result of increased company sales, it will not be able to qualify as a small business under any resolici- I tation; and 3) that the Army erred in its determi- nation that GCE's bid was unreasonably priced since the Army and other agencies have procured similar systems at the same or higher price. For the reasons that follow, we are denying the protest. ii

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