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B-408823.2 1 (2014-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqha0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Reconsideration File: B-408823.2 Date: May 8, 2014 Richard J. McCarthy, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the the agency/requester. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's request reconsideration of our decision to take jurisdiction of a protest challenging the agency's lease of federal property (a space shuttle launch complex) is dismissed where the agency only objects to our decision to take jurisdiction but not the merits of our decision that denied the protest; we see no practical purpose of revisiting the decision in the absence of a dispute between the parties. DECISION The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) requests reconsideration of our decision in Blue Origqin, LLC, B-408823, Dec. 12, 2013, 2013 CPD T 289, in which we denied a protest filed by Blue Origin concerning the terms of announcement for proposals (AFP) No. AFP-KSC-LC39A, issued by NASA for the lease of Launch Complex 39A (LC 39A) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Although we denied the merits of the protest, NASA requests that we reconsider our conclusion that our Office had jurisdiction to hear the protest. We dismiss the request. BACKGROUND LC 39A is a launch complex that was utilized by NASA in connection with the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. Because NASA no longer maintains these programs, the agency concluded that there was no foreseeable use for the complex. The agency also found that it lacked funds to operate and maintain the complex. NASA believed, however, that the complex potentially could be useful to commercial space