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B-401576,B-401576.2,B-401724 1 (2009-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadazr0001 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: Starwin Industries, Inc. File: B-401576; B-401576.2; B-401724 Date: October 1, 2009 Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, for the protester. Katherine D. Sweat, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests that two solicitations for radomes, which limit competition to vendors that are eligible for waiver of first article testing, unduly restrict competition are denied, where the agency has reasonably demonstrated that waiver is necessary to fulfill its urgent requirement for radomes; protester was not denied a fair opportunity to compete, where protester's radomes failed testing provided by the agency and protester is not eligible for waiver. DECISION Starwin Industries, Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) Nos. SPM7M9-09-Q-1300 (RFQ-1300) and SPM7M9-09-Q-1468 (RFQ-1468), issued by the Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) for radomes.' Starwin contends that the inclusion of a provision that limits the competition to vendors who are eligible for waiver of first article testing (FAT) requirements is unduly restrictive. We deny the protests. Radomes are structural, weatherproof enclosures that protect and conceal the antenna assemblies of radar sets on aircraft from the environment and from public view. At issue in these protests is the procurement of AFT (i.e., rear) transmit 1Starwin also protested the terms of RFQ No. SPM7M9-09-Q-1386 for radomes. However, that solicitation was cancelled due to administrative inconsistencies and was reissued as RFQ-1468.

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