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B-277305 1 (1997-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagbt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Freedom Graphic Systems, Inc. File: B-277305 Date: September 22, 1997 Frederic G. Antoun, Jr., Esq., for the protester. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Allegation that termination of contract and resolicitation is improper because agency should have modified protester's contract and considered protester's claim for a substantial concomitant price increase does not provide a valid basis for pro test. DECISION Freedom Graphic Systems, Inc. protests the termination for convenience of a contract issued to it by the Government Printing Office (GPO) under Jacket 425-791, and the resolicitation of a requirement for the production of four versions of a variably imaged self-mailer for the Social Security Administration. Freedom requests that the agency withdraw the termination for convenience, cancel the subsequent resolicitation and award, and reinstate Freedom's original contract with a change order for certain additional required work. We dismiss the protest. The agency received four bids at the original bid opening on May 19, 1997. Award was made to Freedom on the basis of its low bid of $852,862.50. At a post-award conference, Freedom's representative was advised by the agency that the specifications were incorrect because the product needed by the user required the computerized imaging of both sides of the form, rather than the one side specified in the IFB. Freedom subsequently stated that it intended to charge for this modification to the specifications and, on June 2, Freedom quoted an additional price of approximately $151,052.80, with no supporting justification. To date, Freedom has submitted only an internal price list, which the agency concluded was not sufficient to justify Freedom's additional charge.

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