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G A O Comptroller General
Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: Santa Rita, LLC
File: B-411467; B-411467.2
Date: July 20, 2015
Richard F. Busch II, Esq., for Santa Rita, LLC, the protester.
Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest of the terms of a solicitation for the direct sale of scrap metal and other
recyclable materials is dismissed as beyond the scope of the Government
Accountability Office's bid protest jurisdiction where the contract to be awarded
does not involve the delivery of goods or services of more than de minimus value to
the government.
DECISION
Santa Rita, LLC protests the terms of solicitation No. W52P1J-15-R-DVO2, issued
by the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, for the sale of scrap
metal. Santa Rita contends that certain terms in the solicitation are ambiguous and
that the solicitation fails to adequately inform offerors of the evaluation factors upon
which the selection will be based.
We dismiss the protest because it does not pertain to a contract for the procurement
of property or services and thus is outside the scope of our bid protest jurisdiction.
The jurisdiction of our Office is established by the bid protest provisions of the
Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3551-3556. Under
CICA, our authority to decide bid protests encompasses written objections by
interested parties to [a] solicitation or other request by a [f]ederal agency for offers
for a contract for the procurement of property or services. 31 U.S.C. § 3551(1)(A).
Our jurisdiction generally does not extend to challenges concerning the sale or
lease of government property, since these activities, by their nature, are not](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadrgk0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)