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B-401212 1 (2009-06-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadayb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Standard Bent Glass Corporation File: B-401212 Date: June 23, 2009 Frederick L. Tolhurst, Esq., Cohen & Grigsby, P.C., for the protester. Nicole J. Owren-Wiest, Esq., Jon W. Burd, Esq., and Daniel I. Nylen, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for BAE Systems Land & Armaments, LP, an intervenor. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and John Wagner, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly withheld source approval for protester is denied where protester did not submit a source approval request for the items being procured and failed to diligently pursue the information necessary to obtain source approval. 2. Where protester is not an approved source for items requiring source approval, protester is not an interested party to challenge the award of a contract for those items. DECISION Standard Bent Glass Corporation (SBG), of East Butler, Pennsylvania, protests the Department of the Army's award of contract No. W56HZV-09-C-0322 to BAE Systems Land & Armaments, LP, of Arlington, Virginia, for improved vehicle emergency escape windshield kits to be installed on the Army's M1151 up-armored high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicles (HMMWV) deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. SBG 'The windshield kits, which are sometimes referred to as kick-out windshields, allow personnel to quickly escape from an HMMWV in an emergency situation by operating a manual latch within the vehicle and pushing outward on the windshield. Agency Motion to Dismiss, Apr. 10, 2009, at 2.

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