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B-275332 1 (1997-02-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafud0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Assets Recovery Systems, Inc. File: B-275332 Date: February 10, 1997 James S. Green, Esq., and Richard S. Cobb, Esq., Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for the protester. Jeffrey I. Kessler, Esq., and Tony K Vollers, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-Mc Grail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. General Accounting Office is authorized to exercise jurisdiction over protest against award under solicitation providing for exchange of property since an exchange necessarily involves acquisition of property by the government. 2. Where, under solicitation providing for exchange or sale of government-owned aircraft and parts for newer aircraft and/or cash, protester offered one new plane and possibility of others, contingent upon sufficient proceeds being generated via auctioning of the government-owned aircraft and parts, agency properly did not consider the value of the contingently offered planes in determining the overall value of the protester's offer. DECISION Assets Recovery Systems, Inc. (ARSI) protests the award of a contract to K & K Aircraft under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAJ09-96-R-0681, issued by the Department of the Army Aviation and Troop Command for the exchange and/or sale of 124 government-owned U-21 aircraft for one or more Beechcraft 1900D aircraft and/or cash. The protester contends that it was entitled to award because its proposal represented the best value to the government. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In conducting this procurement, the agency sought to achieve two goals: ridding itself of an inventory of aged aircraft and components no longer suitable for the agency's mission and acquiring one or more newer aircraft. To this end, the 123724