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B-204396 1 (1982-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkhl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I I I hiIaI THl COMPTRMILLBF#ONEIBRAL DECISIONFTH E UNITEO BTATES WAS H I NG T6N. C, 205 40E FILE: B-204396 DATE: May 17, 1982 MATTE. OF: Kan-Du Tool & Instrument Corp. DIGEST:* Waiver of a solicitation's first article testing requirement is a* matter within the discretion of the procuring agency and will not be questtoned by GAO in absence of a showing that the decision was arbitrary or capricious, GAO finds that contracting agency's decision not to waive first article testing was supported by the record which indicates that, among other things, there had been a lapse in production of produced item of approximately 4 years, * Kan-Du Tool & Instrument Corp, (Kan-Du) protests the contracting officer's decision not .o waive first article testing on its product bid under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DAAE07-81-B-7299, issued by the • :United States Army Tank-Automotive Command, Warren, Michigan, for the supply of ignition coil parts kits. Kan-Du asserts that the evaluation of its otherwise low bid to include first article testing costs, which resulted in the only other bidder being evaluated as Vt low, was arbitrary and capricious and not in the best interest of the Governments For the reasons set forth below, we deny Kan-Du's protest. Kan-Du contends that the contracting officer did N not take into account all of the significant factors in deciding whether to grant Kan-Du':a waiver from the IPB's first article testing requirements pertaining to the ignition coil part of the parts kit. Specifically, , Kan-Du alleges that it provided thi Army sufficient evidence to show that its vendor, Andover, Inc. (Andover), had been certified by the Government for ' many years as a qualified source of ignition coils. . .I J ~ i ~ ~ ' iy~w .g P .l , w ~~ v w .r w w e 7~ YVj

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