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B-420998 Sep 14, 2022 1 (2022-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaonpv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: RJH Supply, LLC File: B-420998 Date: September 14, 2022 Robert Hoffman for the protester. Ann L. Giddings, Esq., and Kyle P. Symanowitz, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester is not an interested party to file a protest on behalf of another party absent evidence that the other party has expressly authorized the protester to file and represent it in the bid protest. 2. An authorized sales agent of a potentially interested party is not an interested party to pursue a protest on its own behalf where the agent is not itself a prospective bidder or offeror. DECISION RJH Supply, LLC, a small business of Davidsonville, Maryland, protests the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command's issuance of solicitation No. N40080-22-R-8078 for replacement of hospital wayfinding signage. The protester contends that, rather than issuing a competitive solicitation, the agency should have procured the requirement directly from Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (UNICOR), for whom RJH is an authorized sales agent. We dismiss the protest on the basis that the protester is not an interested party. Under the bid protest provisions of the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3551-3557, only an interested party may protest a federal procurement. That is, a protester must be an actual or prospective bidder or offeror whose direct economic interest would be affected by the award of a contract or the failure to award a contract. Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.0(a)(1). In this case, RJH does not contend that it is an actual or prospective offeror under this solicitation, but instead

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