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B-412609.3 1 (2016-08-18)

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          G    A    O                                                 Comptroller General
! A     Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability                        of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office  DocUMENT-FoR-PuBLIEESE
  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.

          Matter of:   HPLogIT Management, LLC

          File:        B-412609.3

          Date:     August 18, 2016

          James A. Piki, Esq., and Andrea Kelly Bouressa, Esq., Scheef & Stone, L.L.P., and
          Kirstin D. Dietel, Esq., and Robert J. Sherry, Esq., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius L.L.P.,
          for the protester.
          Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., and Mark J. Wishner, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P.,
          for Oran Safety Glass, Inc., an intervenor.
          Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Nichole Cram, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
          agency.
          Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the
          General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest is sustained where record does not include documentation showing that the
          agency inspected awardee's product sample for conformance to terms of the
          statement of work, as required by the solicitation.
          DECISION

          HPLogIT Management, LLC (HPL), of Texarkana, Texas, a small business, protests
          the award of a contract to Oran Safety Glass, Inc. (OSG), of Emporia, Virginia,
          under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV-1 5-R-0239, issued by the
          Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, for the MRAP M-ATV
          Transparent Armor Assembly (TAA) Refurbishment Program at Red River Army
          Depot. The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal
          and product sample, and resulting award, were improper.

          We sustain the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          On September 30, 2015, the agency issued the RFP for the remanufacturing of a
          total of 9,000 TAAs that consisted of rear doors, passenger doors, driver's doors,
          passenger windshields, and driver's windshields, as well as an option quantity for

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