Link: GAO Opinion Agency: National Aeuronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Womack Machine Supply Co., regarding the terms of a request for quotations (RFQ) issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for hydraulic servo control manifolds. NASA posted to its website its intent
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Unitron LP Agency: Naval Air Systems Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Sole-source award of a follow-on contract for highly specialized equipment is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that award to any other source would likely cause unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements. General Counsel PC Highlight: Unitron
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Camden Shipping Corporation Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protests Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably awarded a bridge contract on a sole-source basis for the operation and maintenance of a vessel, where the agency reasonably determined that only the incumbent contractor/awardee could ensure the critically needed uninterrupted operation of the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: SDVOSB; Veterans First; sole-source award General Counsel P.C. Highlight: When the VA awards a sole-source award under Veterans First it is not required to set aside the award for SDVOSBs. —————————————————————————————————————————– Crosstown Courier Service, Inc. (Crosstown), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) protests
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Sole-Source, industrial mobilization General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The GAO will not disturb a sole source set aside for maintaining the industrial base unless the agency has abused its discretion. —————————————————————————————————————————– Outdoor Venture Corporation (OVC) protests the award of a contract for lightweight maintenance enclosures
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Prejudice; corrective action; sole-source General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO will not consider an argument regarding compliance with a corrective action letter, except to the extent the protester asserts that an agency’s alleged deviation from its proposed corrective action resulted in a prejudicial
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Sole-Source Award General Counsel, P.C. Highlight: Agency is justified in issuing a sole source award where the purpose of the award is to maintain the contractor as a source of supply for a national emergency or to achieve industrial mobilization. —————————————————————————————————————————– The Defense Logistics
Link: GAO Opinion Agencies: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Sole-source —————————————————————————————————————————– In September, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) posted a pre-solicitation notice advising of its intent to acquire a G.A. Braun Delta 3S32 ironer, available only from G.A. Braun, to be installed at the VA Medical Center in Canandaigua, New York.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of a sole-source contract award justified on the basis of urgency is sustained where the protester’s pursuit of source approval to compete for purchases of helicopter swashplate bearings for more than 9 years, combined with continuing requirement for these parts, show
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency improperly extended a contract on a sole-source basis where it did not establish that only the incumbent could provide the services and the agency could have avoided the urgency that ultimately led to the sole-source award through advance procurement planning.