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United States General Accounting Office Ofie -f
Washington, DC 20548 Germwol COunsel
In Reply
Refer to; H-196040
A to ,February 6, 1980
The Honorable Robert W. Daniel, Jr.
House of Representatives
Dear Mr. Daniel:
This is in response to your letter of December 14, 1979r
regarding our decision on the protest offPhoenix Marine Cor-,
poration, B-196040, October 23, 1979, 79-2 CPD 283. You en-
close a copy of a letter from the Protester dated October 29,
1979, addressed to our Office, which requests that we reopen
tho file and conduct a complete investigation of the procure-
ment practices of the Norfolk [Virginia] Naval Supply Cunter
in making award under the protested solicitation.
You indicate that the protester's letter has not been
answered, and express concern that it may have gone astray.
This apparently is the case. Neither our computerized
record of incoming correspondence nor the protest fild it-
self includes such a letter from Phoenix Marine Corporation
(Phoenix).
While it isi unfortunate that Phoenix's letter did not
reach us sooner, we could not at any time have reopened the
file and conducted the type of investigation which Phoenix
requested and expects. It is not our practice, in conjunc-
tion with bid protests, to con'duct independent investigations
to establish thei validity of protesters' speculative state-
ments. Courier-Citizen company, B-192899, May 9, 1979, 79-1
CPD 323. Our Bid Protest Proceckures require a protester to
state specific grounds of protest with regard to the award
of a specific contract. 4 C.F.R. 20.1 (1979). Moreover,
when Phoenix's protest is broken down into such grounds, it
becomes clear that the issues raised are either untimely or
are not ones which our Office reviews.
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