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B-275332 1 (1997-02-10)

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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision




Matter of: Assets Recovery Systems, Inc.

File:       B-275332

Date:        February 10, 1997

James S. Green, Esq., and Richard S. Cobb, Esq., Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for
the protester.
Jeffrey I. Kessler, Esq., and Tony K Vollers, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Jennifer D. Westfall-Mc Grail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the
General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. General Accounting Office is authorized to exercise jurisdiction over protest
against award under solicitation providing for exchange of property since an
exchange necessarily involves acquisition of property by the government.

2. Where, under solicitation providing for exchange or sale of government-owned
aircraft and parts for newer aircraft and/or cash, protester offered one new plane
and possibility of others, contingent upon sufficient proceeds being generated via
auctioning of the government-owned aircraft and parts, agency properly did not
consider the value of the contingently offered planes in determining the overall
value of the protester's offer.
DECISION

Assets Recovery Systems, Inc. (ARSI) protests the award of a contract to K & K
Aircraft under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAJ09-96-R-0681, issued by the
Department of the Army Aviation and Troop Command for the exchange and/or sale
of 124 government-owned U-21 aircraft for one or more Beechcraft 1900D aircraft
and/or cash. The protester contends that it was entitled to award because its
proposal represented the best value to the government.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

In conducting this procurement, the agency sought to achieve two goals: ridding
itself of an inventory of aged aircraft and components no longer suitable for the
agency's mission and acquiring one or more newer aircraft. To this end, the


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