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          DISMISSED FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION:  August 4, 1995
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                             GSBCA 13360-P
 
 
                       HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICES,
 
                                                Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                    DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS,
 
                                                Respondent.
 
        Leonard T.  Eldridge, General  Manager of  Home Health  Care
   Services, Cincinnati, OH, appearing for Protester.
 
        William E.  Thomas, Jr.,  and Merilee  Rosenberg, Office  of
   General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs,  Washington, DC,
   counsel for Respondent.
 
   Before Board Judges NEILL, VERGILIO, and DeGRAFF.
 
   DeGRAFF, Board Judge.
 
        This protest, filed  on August 1, 1995,  states that bidders
   are responding  to a solicitation  for oxygen services.   We have
   the authority  to consider a  protest only if the  procurement at
   issue is for computers or computer-related products and services.
   Because it does  not appear likely that we have  the authority to
   consider this protest, the presiding  judge called the parties on
   August 2, 1995, in order to convene a telephone  conference.  The
   purpose  of the  conference  was  to explain  the  limits of  our
   authority and to  determine whether protester wished  to withdraw
   its  protest in  order to  pursue any  other available  remedies.
   Protester's representative  did not return the  Board's telephone
   call and so we were unable to confer with the parties.
 
        On the  morning  of  August 3,  1995,  the  presiding  judge
   ordered the  protester to contact  the Board and to  establish by
   noon on August 4, 1995, that this procurement is for computers or
   computer-related  products and services.   The order  stated that
   the protest  would be dismissed  for lack of jurisdiction  if the
   protester failed to make such  a showing.  The protester  did not
   respond to the order.
 
 
        Because  the procurement  at issue  in  this protest  is for
   oxygen  services,   the  protest   is  DISMISSED   FOR  LACK   OF
   JURISDICTION.
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                                      MARTHA H. DeGRAFF
                                      Board Judge
 
   We concur:
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   EDWIN B. NEILL                     JOSEPH A. VERGILIO
   Board Judge                        Board Judge