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B-194358 1 (1979-04-05)

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                        TI-E COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION     (          OF  THE   UNITED STATES
                        WA  SH IN G TO N,  .C. 2054 8




FILE:   B-194358              DATE: April 5, 1979

MATTER  OF:   Baldt, Incorporated


DIGEST:               §Qe 4oUo O        e(7/.,7

      Where protester questions responsibility
      of low bidder, our Office will not review
      protest unless either fraud is shown on
      part of procuring officials or solicita-
      tion contains definitive responsibility
      criteria which allegedly have not been
      applied.


      Baldt, Incorporated (Baldt), orotests award of a
 contract t E.V-Camp  Steel  o rs(E.V.)  by the Depart-
 une  the   Army, Louisvlle  District Corps of Eng neers,
 under solicitation No. DACW27-79-B-0051.

      Baldt alleges that E.V. is incapable of meeting
 the requirements of the IFB (supplying extra high
 strength 1-3/8-inch chain) and reouests that a
 preaward survey be conducted to determine whether
 E.V. is a responsible bidder.

      This Office no longer reviews protests against
 affirmative determinations of responsibility unless
 either fraud is shown on the part of the procuring
 officials or the solicitation contains definitive
 responsibility criteria which allegedly have not been
 applied.  Central Metl Proclucts, 54 Commp. Gen. 66
 (1974), 74-2 CPD 64; Oregon Wilbert Vault Corooration,
 B-191000, January 18, 1978, 73-1 CPD 49. Neither
 exception is present here.

      Therefore, the trotest is dismissed.



                       Milton J. S colar
                       General Counsel

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