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B-213050.2 1 (1983-10-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadljs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OUCIBION OF THE UNITED STATED WASHINGTON. O.C. 20548 FILE: B-213050.2 DATE: October 25, 1983 MATTER OF: Le Prix Electrical Distributors, Ltd.-- Request for Reconsideration DIGEST: Request for reconsideration is denied where protester makes no attempt to show that original decision contained an error of fact or law, but presents new basis for protest--whether contractor will comply with Buy American Act--which concerns a matter of contract administration that GAO does not review under its Bid Protest Pro- cedures. Le Prix Electrical Distributors, Ltd. requests that we reconsider our decision Le Prix Electrical Distribu- tors, Ltd., B-213050, September 30, 1983, 83-2 CPD For the reasons stated below, the request is denied. Le Prix's initial protest stemmed from the rejection by the Air Force of lighting fixtures Le Prix proposed to supply as a subcontractor to Palmer Electric Company, the prime contractor under contract No. F08621-83-C0027. Le Prix argued that the materials it proposed to supply to the prime contractor should have been acceptable because the prime contract specifications were broadly written. We dismissed Le Prix's protest on the basis that the acceptance or rejection of construction material proposed for use in the project is a matter of contract administra- tion between the government and the prime contractor, and not an issue which we would consider under our Bid Protest Procedures. In its request for reconsideration, Le Prix does not dispute our characterization of the issue in its protest as one of contract administration and it does not attempt to distinguish the decision of our Office which we cited in support of our dismissal. Instead, Le Prix presents four new reasons, in part as to why it believes we should consider its protest on the merits. Three of these reasons are simply expressions of Le Prix's belief that

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