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B-401212 1 (2009-06-23)

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         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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