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B-409963.3 1 (2015-02-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqym0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General 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 L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Sea Box, Inc. File: B-409963.3 Date: February 4, 2015 Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Julia di Vito, Esq., and Peter B. Ford, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Dennis J. Callahan, Esq., Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, for W&K Containers, Inc., an intervenor. Shantay N. Clarke, Esq., and Nicole Franchetti, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that an agency's determination of noncompliance with the Trade Agreements Act was unreasonable is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the protester's foreign-sourced components would not be substantially transformed in the U.S. and thus the protester's item did not qualify as a U.S.-made end product. DECISION Sea Box, Inc. of East Riverton, New Jersey, protests the award of a contract by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to W&K Containers, Inc. (W&K), of Mill Valley, California, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPE8ED-1 4-Q-0418 for large metal shipping containers known as Tricon Type I. The protester alleges that the agency erred in finding that Sea Box did not offer a U.S.-made end product in compliance with the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (TAA), 19 U.S.C. § 2501 et seg. (2012).1 We deny the protest. 1 The TAA generally requires that end products be acquired from the U.S. or designated countries. 19 U.S.C. § 2512(a).

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