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B-223238 1 (1987-02-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmpl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- VIP Limousine Service, Inc.--Reconsideration File: B-225639.2 Date: February 26, 1987 DIGEST Prior decision is affirmed on reconsideration where the protester fails to establish that the decision erred in holding that the question of the successful bidder's alleged failure to possess the requisite state commission operating authority--which was not specifically required by the solicitation--was not a valid legal basis upon which to object to the award of a contract to the firm. DECISION VIP Limousine Service, Inc. requests reconsideration of our decision in VIP Limousine Service, Inc., B-225639, Jan. 29, 1987, 87-1 CPD _, in which we dismissed VIP's protest against the award of a contract for patient transportation services to E.M.A.S., Inc. under Veterans Administration solicitation No. 583-7b-87. VIP had complained that the award was improper because E.M.A.S. allegedly did not hold the requisite operating authority from the Public Service Commission of Indiana (PSCI), in contravention of section M of the solicitation which stated that the successful bidder was to meet all federal, state, or city licensing requirements for the transportation services to be provided. We dismissed the protest because it was clear that the provisions of section M were only general in nature, making no reference to the particular PSCI operating authority in question or to any other specific license. In that regard, the consistent view of this Office has been that, except where a solicitation imposes a specific licen- sing requirement--compliance with which (or at least the ability to comply) being a prerequisite to award--a contract- ing officer is not charged with the consideration of non- federal licensing requirements in awarding a contract. In other words, it is only where the contracting officer has

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