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B-402281 1 (2010-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbfm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Ceradyne, Inc. File: B-402281 Date: February 17, 2010 Michael A. Hordell, Esq., Stanley R. Soya, Esq., and Heather Kilgore Weiner, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP, for the protester. Maj. Walter Dukes, U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's decision to set aside delivery order under a multiple award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the small business ID/IQ contract holders was reasonable where both small business contract holders represented to the agency that they could meet the delivery order requirements. DECISION Ceradyne, Inc., of Costa Mesa, California, protests a decision by the U.S. Army Materiel Command to set aside for small business concerns, delivery order No. 9 for body armor, Small Arms Protective Inserts (SAPI). Ceradyne argues that the Army's set-aside decision was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND SAPIs are ceramic plates designed to withstand and absorb ballistic impact. These plates are inserted into vests and other protective gear and used by military personnel and security forces as body armor. In March 2008, the Army issued a solicitation for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to provide SAPIs in support of the government's foreign military sales program. On September 11, 2008, the Army made four awards under the solicitation to the following firms: (1) Armacel Armor Corp. (contract No. W91CRB-08-D-0060) (a small business concern); (2) ArmorWorks Enterprises, LLC (contract No. W91CRB- 08-D-0061) (a small business concern); (3) Ceradyne, Inc. (contract No. W91CRB-08- D-0062) (a large business); and (4) Composix Co. (contract No. W91CRB-08-D-0063)

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