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...ruling by the General Accounting Office (GAO) marked an important step in resolving year-old charges that the National Institute of Education (NIE) played favorites by awarding the money to Harvard over Bank St. College of New York...
...ruled that NIE director Manuel J. Justiz did have the authority to overrule a technical review panel's recommendation that the contract be given to the New York college...
...second part of Bank St's protest charged that an NIE official broke the law by informing Harvard and MIT another competitor for the contract, that their bids were about $2 million over the NIE's estimate for the project...
Both Harvard and MIT subsequently lowered their bids to near the NIE $7.7 million figure but Bank St was not told that it had underbid and its proposal carried a $4.5 million price tag throughout the contract competition...
...ruled that although the NIE's contract officer did break the agency's rules, the regulations were designed only as "matters of internal policy graduate." Because it was not a question of law the violation is not grounds for disallowing the contract...