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B-405423 1 (2011-10-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoil0001 and id is 1 raw text is: S G A O Comptroller General 7.r7777 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. D e c i s i o n ...................................................................................................................... Matter of: Outdoor Venture Corporation File: B-405423 Date: October 25, 2011 Marc Lamer, Esq., Kostos & Lamer, PC, for the protester. Jessica Abrahams, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the intervenor. Michael P. Wilson, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and Scott H. Riback, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging sole-source award for tents is denied where agency sole-source justification reasonably determined that award was necessary for industrial mobilization purposes. DECISION Outdoor Venture Corporation (OVC) of Stems, Kentucky, protests the award of contract No. SPMIC1-11-C-0019 for lightweight maintenance enclosures (LMEs) by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), on a sole-source basis to Camel Manufacturing Company of Pioneer, Tennessee. The sole-source award was justified under 10 U.S.C. § 2304(c)(3) (2006), which provides for award of a contract to a particular source to maintain the source for a national emergency or to achieve industrial mobilization. See also Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 6.302-3. The protester asserts that it should have received an award, since it produces the required items and is in need of support to maintain its production capability. We deny the protest. In a 2007 study, DLA identified seven firms in the relevant industrial base for LMEs and other military tent requirements, including OVC and Camel. Agency Report (AR), exh. 3, at 1. The study found that five concerns, including Camel and OVC, were heavily dependent on DLA business, that the manufacture of tents was labor intensive and used a highly skilled workforce, and that the firms all faced challenges in retaining their respective workforces. Id. Based on this analysis, DLA began

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