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B-423023 Oct 21, 2024 1 (2024-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqyt0001 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: Romeo Luxury Customs File: B-423023 Date: October 21, 2024 Wendell Romeo, for the protester. Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) improperly rejected the protester's bid as non-responsive is dismissed because GAO does not have jurisdiction to consider protests of procurements by WMATA because it is an interstate compact entity, not a federal agency. DECISION Romeo Luxury Customs, a small business of Washington, D.C., protests the award of a contract to First State Manufacturing, of Milford, Delaware, under invitation for bids (lFB) No. 0000009779, issued by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) for the reupholstery of bus seat assemblies. The protester contends that the agency improperly rejected the protester's bid as non-responsive under the terms of the IFB. We dismiss the protest because our Office does not have jurisdiction to consider protests of WMATA procurements. The jurisdiction of our Office is established by the bid protest provisions of the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3551-3557. Our role in resolving bid protests is to ensure that the statutory requirements for full and open competition are met. Honeywell Tech. Solutions, Inc., B-407159.4, May 2, 2013, 2013 CPD T 110 at 3. As relevant here, CICA defines a protest as a written objection by an interested party to a solicitation or other request by a federal agency for bids or proposals for a contract for the procurement of property or services, or an award or proposed award of such a contract. 31 U.S.C. §§ 3551(1), 3553. Thus, our threshold jurisdictional concern is whether the procurement at issue is being conducted by a

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