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B-408584 1 (2013-11-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpvn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Streit USA Armoring, LLC File: B-408584 Date: November 5, 2013 Eric Carlson for the protester. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Under solicitation for armored vehicles for use in diplomatic missions overseas, a requirement for factory-armored vehicles, which excludes the protester's process of retrofitting standard vehicles with armor, is not unduly restrictive of competition where the record shows that the requirement reasonably is necessary to meet the agency's needs. DECISION Streit USA Armoring, LLC, of Ladson, South Carolina, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. SGE500-13-R-0007, issued by the Department of State for armored vehicles for use in diplomatic missions in various overseas locations. Streit argues that the solicitation unreasonably restricts competition to factory-built armored vehicles. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on March 11, 2013, provided for the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for armored passenger sedans. Detailed specifications were provided for both right-hand and left-hand drive vehicles. The RFP emphasized that the vehicles were to be specially protected factory-built sedans with the armoring materials integrated as part of the vehicles' structural component design. RFP at 6 (emphasis in original). The specifications concerning the armoring required, among other things, that the vehicles' suspension and brake systems be designed to accommodate the armoring mass of the

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