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B-400967 1 (2009-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadauk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Solutions Lucid Group, LLC File: B-400967 Date: April 2, 2009 Lyle Glover for the protester. Elan Taylor, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision not to solicit a quotation from the protester is sustained where the record shows that the agency knew that the protester was interested in competing and did not have a reasonable basis to question the protester's ability to perform. DECISION Solutions Lucid Group, LLC (SLG) of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma protests the issuance of a purchase order to Coordinated Defense Supply Systems of Clinton Township, Michigan under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPM4A6-09-Q-0599, issued by the Defense Supply Center Richmond (DSCR) for 61,940 fluorescent lamp starters. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably excluded it from the competition for the order. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The agency explains that the domestic manufacturing base for the fluorescent lamp starters, which are used on the Eagle F-15 aircraft to keep the lights inside the plane from flickering and distracting the pilot, has eroded in recent years; as a result, it has had difficulty in keeping up with the demand of the military services for the item, which is approximately 150,000 starters annually. The agency notes that the order at issue here was one of seven orders placed since December 2007. Three of the orders were issued to dealers of surplus material for very small quantities of the starters (500 in one case, 287 in another, and 190 in the third). A fourth purchase order, for

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