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B-293048.2 1 (2003-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller General ....Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Turkcell Consortium File: B-293048.2 Date: November 12, 2003 Stephen G. Anderson, Esq., and Charles R. Johnston, Jr., Esq., Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, for the protester. Maj. Frank A. March, Department of the Army, for the agency. Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging Coalition Provisional Authority's issuance of licenses for telecommunications services in Iraq is not for consideration under General Accounting Office's bid protest function since the licenses do not involve the provision of property or services to the federal government. DECISION Turkcell Consortium protests the decision by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which currently exercises governmental powers in Iraq, not to issue to Turkcell a mobile telecommunications license under a solicitation issued by, in the protester's words, the CPA, in consultation with the Iraqi Ministry of Communications.' The licenses are granted to allow companies to offer wireless 'On October 22, 2003, our Office dismissed Turkcell's original protest of this same matter because that protest failed to meet the requirements at 4 C.F.R. § 21. 1(c)(4) and (f) (2003) of our Bid Protest Regulations, which require that a protest include a detailed statement of the legal and factual grounds for protest, and that the grounds stated be legally sufficient. In its original protest, Turkcell stated that it had almost no information about the evaluation of competitors proposals and any licenses that might have been issued, but that Turkcell finds it inconceivable that errors were not made in the evaluation process. Protester's Original Protest, Oct. 14, 2003, at 3. We concluded that such speculation did not meet the requirements in our Regulations. See Little Sustina, Inc., B-244228, July 1, 1991, 91-2 CPD ¶ 6 at 4. Turkcell filed this second protest after receiving a debriefing from the CPA.

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