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B-407990 1 (2013-05-03)

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        G    A                                                      Comptroller General
      AccountabiiIy * Integrity' Rebiiblit                          of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter of: Womack Machine Supply Co.

         File:       B-407990

         Date:       May 3, 2013

         Gregg Rupkalvis for the protester.
         Alexander T. Bakos, Esq., and Jerry L. Seemann, Esq., National Aeronautics and
         Space Administration, for the agency.
         Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General
         Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest objecting to an agency amendment of a solicitation to provide additional
         requirements and testing is denied where the performance requirements and tests
         are necessary to meet the agency's needs.
         DECISION

         Womack Machine Supply Co., of Farmers Branch, Texas, protests the terms of
         request for quotations (RFQ) No. NNM1 3449183Q, issued by the National
         Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for hydraulic servo control
         manifolds.' Womack complains that the solicitation's testing requirement is unduly
         restrictive of competition and was added to prevent Womack from competing.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         On November 5, 2012, NASA posted on an agency website its intent to procure 300
         hydraulic servo control manifolds from Charles F. Wheelock on a sole-source basis.

         1 A hydraulic manifold regulates fluid flow. The manifolds are for a hydraulic system
         that NASA uses to test space flight hardware (such as liquid oxygen tanks) for its
         manned Space Launch System Program. Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement
         at 1.

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