A B737-800 WAS DISPATCHED IN NON COMPLIANCE WITH THE L ENG R IGNITION SYS INOP. 'NO GO' ITEM SINCE IT IS PWRED FROM STANDBY BUS.

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WHILE PUSHING BACK FROM THE SE GATE AREA AT ZZZ; WE ATTEMPTED TO START THE #1 ENG. WITH NO EGT RISE; WE ABORTED THE START; LOWERED THE START LEVER TO CUT-OFF; MOTORED THE ENG FOR 60 SECONDS AND COMPLETED THE QRH ITEMS. THE FO AND I AGREED THE PROB WAS THE FAILURE OF THE L ENG; R IGNITER AND REFERRED THEN TO THE MEL SECTION 74-01-04. WE CALLED FOR MAINT VIA FREQ X TO MEET US BACK AT THE GATE. THEY REPLIED BY REQUESTING US NOT TO RETURN TO THE GATE YET TO BE PUSHED TO THE AREA S OF GATE X; SO THEY COULD ADDRESS THE PROB THERE. WHILE WAITING FOR MAINT WE COMPLIED WITH THE MEL ITEMS OF OP (O) INSURING THE L IGNITION FUNCTIONED PROPERLY AS PER THE MEL BY STARTING THE L ENG AGAIN ON THE L IGNITER. RESIDUAL FUEL FROM THE PREVIOUS FAILED START CAUSED SIGNIFICANT SMOKE DURING START. WE SHUT DOWN THE ENG AND RPTED THAT EVENT ALSO TO MAINT. A LINE MAINT SUPVR TALKED TO US VIA INTERPHONE WHILE WE REVIEWED THE MEL WITH HIM. HE AND 2 OTHER MAINT PERSONNEL WORKED ON THE PROB. LATER HE REQUESTED US TO THEN START THE L ENG AGAIN. (NOTE: THE IGNITER NOW WAS IN THE 'BOTH' POS AS PER MEL 'O'). ONCE WE AGAIN STARTED THE L ENG; MAINT ASKED US TO START THE R ENG TO 'COMPARE SMOKE LEVELS FOR BOTH ENGS.' THE MAINT SUPVR LATER (XA18 LCL) ANNOUNCED 'YOU ARE GOOD TO GO.' I ASKED HIM SPECIFICALLY TO NOTIFY MAINT CTL TO LET ZZZ1 CONTRACT MAINT KNOW OF OUR WRITE-UP TO BE ADDRESSED. (NOTE: MAINT LOGS REFLECT ALL REFS TO R IGNITION FAILURE AND TO SMOKE REFS I MADE.) I WROTE UP THE R IGNITER AS BEING INOP AND THAT THE MAINT ADDRESSED THE ISSUES (PROCS). UPON ARR AT ZZZ1; I REMINDED THE AGENT OF THE WRITE-UP THINKING MAINT CTL HAD NOTIFIED THE CONTRACT MAINT IN ZZZ1 AS PER MY REQUEST WITH THE ZZZ LINE MAINT SUPVR. I WAS ADVISED BY ZZZ CPO THE FOLLOWING WK (OCT/TUE/02 XA25 LCL) THAT THE REQUIRED MAINT MEL PROC AND REQUIRED MAINT NOTIFICATIONS TO DOWN-LINE MAINT WERE NOT MADE BY MAINT ZZZ.