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B-195267.3 1 (1980-03-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjfb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United Sties General Acccunting OfficeOffice of Washinitoa, DC 205,48 IGneral Counsel In Reply Refer to: 13A 9 5 2 6 7.3 March 24, 1980 The Honorable John Glen:) United States Senate 10 i'1to ;et ,L tu piblo t ( f l ,n m Dear Sonator Glenn: Reforence is made to your letter of March 3, 1980, expressing your Interost in the protest filed by PowerTesting, Incorporated, which was the subject -h of our declsioii dated November 13, 1979, previously furnished to you. In that dclicsioh we stated that we considered the issues raised by Power Testing to be academic because the Department of Transportation had canceled the protested solicitation. Power Testing had protested, among othor thIngs, that the Department of Pransport.atlon was procuring for the Vopair and maintenance of electrical substa- tions -on a, sole-source basis, An a result of Power Testing's protest, the Department of Transportation decided to cancel the protested solicitation and to reprocure for the required services on a competitive basis. Despitet this corrective action on the part of the Department of Transportation, Power Tetting wanted our Office to decide whether the Department of Transportation should set aside all similar procure- ments for exclustve participation by small businesses and whether the Lepartmeni of Transportation used the correct size standard in the canceled solicitation. We declined to do so. It is our policy not to decide issues raised in a protest when thooe issues have'been rendered academic because the protested solicitation has been canceled by the agency. Generally, we do not decide issuos merely because a protester desires to know whether the agency was right or wrong or because the protester C. 3 ' - - i, ,

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