Request for Reconsideration

A company requested reconsideration of a decision which denied its protest of the cancellation of a request for proposals for an automated data processing system. The company contended that the cancellation was motivated by an illegal and arbitrary bias on the part of procuring officials and that the agency had exhibited gross bad faith in its procurement actions. To support an allegation of bad faith, the record must show irrefutable proof that the agency had a malicious and specific intent to injure the party alleging bad faith. At worst, the record showed that the agency had displayed varying degrees of inexpertness and inefficiency in its actions. Further, allegations of bias could not be attributed to procuring officials merely on the basis of inference or supposition. Since the company did not advance any factual or legal grounds upon which a reversal of the decision would be warranted, the previous decision was affirmed.