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B-295529.6 1 (2006-02-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaslf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Alan D. King File: B-295529.6 Date: February 21, 2006 William W. Thompson, Jr., Esq., Michael A. Branca, Esq., and Lori Ann Lange, Esq., Peckar, Abramson, Bastianelli & Kelley, for the protester. David R. Johnson, Esq., Amanda J. Dietrick, Esq., and Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., Vinson & Elkins, for IAP World Services, Inc., an intervenor. Raymond M. Saunders, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester challenging, on behalf of federal employees, the outcome of a cost comparison study held pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, is not an interested party with standing to pursue a protest at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) where the study at issue was not initiated on or after January 26, 2005, as required by the amendment to the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3551-56 (2000) set forth at section 326(a) of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005, Pub. L. No. 108-375, 118 Stat. 1811, 1848, which authorizes the official responsible for submitting the federal agency tender in a public-private competition conducted under the Circular to be an interested party for purposes of filing a bid protest at the GAO. DECISION Alan D. King, the Deputy Garrison Commander of the Department of the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., protests the Army's decision to procure base operations support services at Walter Reed using a contract awarded to lAP World Services, Inc., under request for proposals No. DADA1O-03-R-0001, rather than continue to have these services performed in-house using government employees. The Army's decision was made pursuant to procedures established by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76; however, the Army and

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