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B-412579 1 (2016-03-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsou0001 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 - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Midwest Tube Fabricators, Inc. File: B-412579 Date: March 30, 2016 Cindy Victor, Esq., Kus Ryan & Associates, PLLC, for the protester. Colleen T. Loughran, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that awardee's proposal was unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the awardee had satisfied the solicitation traceability requirement with respect to a critical part in that the documentation furnished in response to the agency's inquiries reasonably indicated that the part to be furnished could be traced to an approved source or its authorized distributor. DECISION Midwest Tube Fabricators, Inc., of Sterling Heights, Michigan, protests the award of a contract to Twin Services, Inc., of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE7LX-15-R-0066, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), DLA Land and Maritime, for vehicular maintenance kits. Midwest contends that DLA improperly determined that Twin Services' proposal satisfied the solicitation requirement that a critical part in the kits be traceable to the approved source or its authorized distributor. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on May 2, 2015, as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside, contemplated the award on a best-value basis of a fixed-price indefinite-quantity contract, for three base years, for vehicular maintenance kits,

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