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B-414392 1 (2017-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtld0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below wassubjectto Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has D been approved for public release. Matter of: Gichner Systems Group, Inc. File: B-414392 Date: May 31, 2017 James D. Puckett, Esq., Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc., for the protester. Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., John R. Prairie, Esq., and John P. Fletcher, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, Inc., the intervenor. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and David A. Machado, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of the agency's decision to award a sole-source contract is denied, where the agency reasonably determined that other possible manufacturers would be unable to meet the delivery schedule as a result of a first article testing requirement. 2. Protest that the agency's decision to award a sole-source contract resulted from the agency's failure to engage in advance planning is denied, where the agency began its acquisition planning prior to the expiration of the previous contract and intervening events changed the nature of the procurement. DECISION Gichner Systems Group, Inc.,1 of Dallastown, Pennsylvania, protests the decision of the Department of the Army to award a sole-source contract to General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, Inc. (GDATP), of Marion, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV-17-R-0098, for 31 Army Standard Family (ASF) shelters. Gichner challenges the basis for the proposed sole-source award, arguing that it is a qualified manufacturer of the shelters that could meet the Army's needs and that the Army's need for shelters is the result of a lack of advance planning. 1 Gichner is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc.

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