[Protest of DLA Contract Award for Intake Filter Elements]
Highlights
A firm protested a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) contract award for intake filter elements. GAO held that the protest was academic, since DLA was cancelling the underlying solicitation. Accordingly, the protest was dismissed.
Matter of: Dyna-Air Engineering Corp. File: B-278037 Date: November 7, 1997
DECISION
Dyna-Air Engineering Corp. protests the award of a contract to Ar Bee Corp. under request for quotations No. SPO750-97-Q-1676, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency for intake filter elements.
We dismiss the protest because the agency is cancelling the underlying solicitation.
The cancellation of a solicitation renders a protest academic. Morey Mach., Inc.--Request for Recon., B-233793.2, Aug. 3, 1989, 89-2 CPD Para. 102. We do not consider academic protests because to do so would serve no useful public policy purpose. We only consider protests against specific procurement actions and will not render to a protester what would be, in effect, an advisory decision. East West Research, Inc.--Recon., B-233623.2, Apr. 14, 1989, 89-1 CPD Para. 379.
Comptroller General of the United States