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B-292580 1 (2003-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyld0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General .. . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Scot, Incorporated File: B-292580 Date: October 3, 2003 Barron J. Daly and Bob LaFrance for the protester. Michael R. Lund, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's prior approval of the awardee for inclusion on a qualified source list for impulse cartridges, without pre-award testing, is reasonable, where the awardee had acquired a firm that was already a qualified source at one facility and had requested qualification at a recently acquired facility to which it was transferring technology and assets from the qualified source that had designed and produced the impulse cartridge, the recently acquired facility had previously manufactured similar impulse cartridges, and the solicitation included a provision permitting waiver of any or all qualification requirements for firms with experience producing the same or similar cartridges. DECISION Scot, Incorporated protests the award of a contract to Pac Sci Quantic under request for proposals (RFP) No. F42630-03-R-3233, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for BBU-63/B impulse cartridges. Scot contends that Pac Sci Quantic is not a qualified source for the cartridges as required by the RFP. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued March 12, 2003, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for base and option quantities. The RFP contained the standard Qualifications Requirements clause, as set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 52-209-1, which provided notice that the award was limited to firms offering to 'These cartridges are used on the B-2 aircraft bomb ejector rack to jettison bombs.

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