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B-210732.2 1 (1983-11-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlkb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 'THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WAS H I NTO N. 0. C. 2054 8 FILE: B-210732.2 DATE: November 10, 1983 MATTER OF: Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. DIGEST: 1. GAO, except in limited circumstances, will not review a potential subcontractor's pro- test of the award of a subcontract since the matter involves contract administration. 2. Contention that prime contractor is supply- ing vehicles with nonconforming lighting systems is a matter of contract administra- tion not for review under GAO's Bid Protest Procedures. Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. complains that the lighting systems supplied by Federal Signal Company to Southern Ambulance Builders, Inc., the prime contractor, for ambulances under a contract awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Command, do not meet the contract require- ments. Whelen, a potential subcontractor, requests that these allegedly deficient lighting components be removed from the vehicles and that the prime contractor be required to install proper lighting systems from either the existing supplier or the protester. Whelen seems to be protesting both that it was improp- erly denied a subcontract award to supply the lighting systems and that the Army is accepting nonconforming equip- ment. We would consider a protest against a subcontract award only in certain limited circumstances. The gov- ernment's participation in subcontract awards generally involves only approval of the prime contractor's selec- tion of a subcontractor, which is a function of contract administration which we do not review under our protest procedures. Supreme Equipment & Systems Corporation, B-211428, May 6, 1983, 83-1 CPD 478. Whelen's protest does not suggest that any of the limited circumstances which would warrant our review is present here.

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