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B-406770 1 (2012-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpam0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision approved for public release. Matter of: Unitron LP File: B-406770 Date: August 14, 2012 Cynthia Malyszek, Esq., Malyszek & Malyszek, for the protester. Barry Spilka, Esq., Aviation Ground Equipment Corporation, for the intervenor. Karin S. Wiechmann, Esq., Department of Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, for the agency. Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Sole-source award of a follow-on contract for highly specialized equipment is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that award to any other source would likely cause unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements. DECISION Unitron LP (Unitron), of Dallas, Texas, protests the Department of the Navy's proposed award of a sole-source contract to Aviation Ground Equipment Corporation (AGE), of Freeport, New York, for up to forty Static Frequency Converters (SFCs), used to supply electrical power to aircraft during ground maintenance operations. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In April 2006, the Navy awarded Contract N68335-06-D-001 3 to AGE for the design, development, and manufacture of up to 369 mobile SFCs. Agency Report (AR) at 2. The SFCs are trailer-mounted, modified commercial items, used to power military aircraft during ground maintenance operations. Id. Pursuant to this contract, the AGE SFC underwent substantial testing by AGE and the Navy to establish that the design met the required specifications and was suitable for its

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