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B-402105 1 (2010-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbeh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General KWn , 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. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: Ridgeline Industries, Inc. File: B-402105 Date: January 7, 2010 Mark Lamer, Esq., Kostos and Lamer, P.C., for the protester. Jessica C. Abrahams, Esq., and Erin B. Sheppard, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for Camel Manufacturing Company, an intervenor. Lynne Georges, Esq., and Judith Pullman Gever, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging sole-source contract for complete tent systems is denied where agency sole-source justification reasonably determined that award was necessary for industrial mobilization purposes. DECISION Ridgeline Industries, Inc., of Clayton, New York, protests the award of a contract to Camel Manufacturing Company, of Caryville, Tennessee, by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under request for proposal (RFP) No. SPM1C1-09-R-0187 for 2,677 modular general-purpose tent systems. Ridgeline argues that the award of a sole- source contract to Camel to preserve the industrial base was unreasonable. Instead, Ridgeline argues that it should have been considered for award. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In response to this protest, DLA explains that it began to explore the reasons for its difficulties meeting the wartime need for tents produced according to military specifications as early as 2004. A detailed study was prepared in May 2007, which identified seven vendors capable of producing military specification tent systems, of

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