DISMISSED FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION:  September 9, 1993
                                                               
 
 
                             GSBCA 12549-P 
 
 
                      ANALYTICAL MANAGEMENT, INC.,
 
                                                     Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY,
 
                                                     Respondent.
 
        James F.  Nicol, President of  Analytical Management,  Inc.,
   Lexington, KY, appearing for Protester.
 
        Royanne  C. Bailey,  Office of  Counsel,  Naval Sea  Systems
   Command, Arlington, VA, counsel for Respondent.
 
   Before Board Judges LaBELLA, PARKER, and DeGRAFF.  
 
   LaBELLA, Board Judge.
 
        The Board has received a protest from Analytical Management,
   Inc., stating that it wishes to  protest a contract award made by
   Hercules  Incorporated,   Hercules  Aerospace  Company,   for  an
   asbestos survey contract at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, a
   facility of the Department of the Navy.  
 
        Because the matter appears to involve an award by other than
   a Government  agency and  pertains to  asbestos surveying  rather
   than  to  automatic  data processing  equipment  or  services, on
   August 24, 1993, the Board issued an order to show cause why this
   protest  should  not  be  dismissed  for  lack  of  jurisdiction.
   Protester failed to respond to the order.
 
        The  Board's protest jurisdiction  is limited by  statute to
   procurements   involving  the   acquisition  of   automatic  data
   processing  equipment and services  (ADPE).  40  U.S.C.   759(a),
   (f) (1988).   ADPE is defined to  include equipment "used  in the
   automatic   acquisition,   storage,   manipulation,   management,
   movement, control, display,  switching interchange, transmission,
   or reception  of data or information."  40 U.S.C.   759(a)(2)(A).
   Moreover, the Board has no  jurisdiction to entertain protests of
   subcontracts awarded by managing and operating prime contractors.
   U.S. West Communications v. U.S., 940 F.2d 622 (Fed. Cir. 1991).
 
 
 
                                Decision
 
        Protester  was  instructed  to show  cause  why  this matter
   should not  be dismissed  for lack of  jurisdiction on  or before
   August 30,  1993.   Since we  have not  received a  response from
   protester,  this protest  is, therefore,  DISMISSED  for lack  of
   jurisdiction.
 
 
 
                                           _________________________
                                           VINCENT A. LaBELLA
                                           BOARD JUDGE
 
   We concur:
 
 
 
   _______________________
   Robert W. Parker
   Board Judge
 
 
 
   _______________________
   Martha H. DeGraff
   Board Judge