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B-186800 1 (1976-08-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddir0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~ ¾ THE COMPTROLLER GENE~A DECISIOI . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: B-186800 DATE: <August 9, 1976 MATTER OF: Communitronics Ltd. DIGEST: Where statute prohibits GAO from disallowing credit for an expenditure determined by TVA Board to be necessary to carry out TVA act, protest involving TVA contract award is dismissed because no useful purpose would be served by its consideration. Communitronics Ltd. has forwarded a copy of its June 18, 1976, protest to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) concern- ing the award of contract 6-100586 to the General Electric Company. Communitronics Ltd. argues that, as the low bidder meeting the specification requirements, it was entitled to the contract award. Our Bid Protest Procedures provide that an interested party may protest to this Office the award or the proposed award of a contract by or for an agency of the Federal govern- ment whose accounts are subject to settlement by the General Accounting Office. 4 C.F.R. 20.1(a) (1976). However, TVA is a Government corporation whose purchasing and contracting authority is set forth in subsection (b) of section 831h, Title 16, United States Code, in part as follows: * * *Provided, That, subject only to the pro- visions of this chapter, the Corporation is authorized to make such expenditures and to enter into such contracts, agreements and arrangements, upon such terms and conditions and in such manner as it may deem necessary including the final settlement of all claims and litigation by or against the Corporation; and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law governing the expenditure of public funds, the General Accounting Office * * * shall not disallow credit for, nor withhold funds because of, any expenditure which the - 1 -

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