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B-290603 1 (2002-09-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaogj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Shinwha Electronics File: B-290603; B-290603.2; B-290931; B-290932, B-290932.2, B-291064 Date: September 3, 2002 Holly A. Roth, Esq., and Stephen M. Ryan, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, for the protester. Captain Gregory A. Moritz, Department of the Army, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that offeror was improperly suspended from receiving government contracts is denied where there is no evidence that the agency acted arbitrarily to avoid making an award to an offeror otherwise entitled to award and where the minimum standards of due process have been met. 2. General Accounting Office, under its bid protest function, will no longer review protests that an agency improperly suspended or debarred a contractor, as the contracting agency is the appropriate forum for suspension and debarment disputes. DECISION Shinwha Electronics protests its exclusion from the competition for award of a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAJB03-02-R-0084, issued by the Department of the Army for the maintenance and repair of fire alarm and detection systems at Kunsan Air Base, Korea. Shinwha was precluded from competing on the basis of its status as a suspended contractor. Shinwha contends that its suspension was improper, and that the company's resulting exclusion from the competition was, therefore, also improper. We deny this protest (B-290932). Shinwha also filed five other protests raising issues in addition to those concerning its suspension. As explained below, we dismiss these protests on the ground that, as a suspended contractor, Shinwha is not an interested party to maintain the protests. The RFP, issued on April 29, 2002, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a 6-month base period, with one 3-month option period, to provide maintenance

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