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B-414846,B-414930 1 (2017-09-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtvv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: W K Engineering International, Inc. File: B-414846; B-414930 Date: September 26, 2017 Jonathan R. Hickman, Esq., Esquire Corporate Services, L.C., for the protester. Niketa L. Wharton, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency unreasonably restricted competition for a critical application item to one approved source is dismissed as untimely where the protest was not raised before the closing date for receipt of quotations. DECISION W K Engineering International, Inc. (WKE), a small business located in Santa Clarita, California, protests the issuance of two purchase orders to AMI Industries, Inc., of Colorado Springs, Colorado, under request for quotations (RFQ) Nos. SPE4A7-17-T- C587 and SPE4A7-17-T-H699 (hereinafter the C587 RFQ and the H699 RFQ respectively), issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for pulley wheels associated with aircraft ejection seats. The protester challenges the agency's decision to restrict sources of supply for the pulley wheels to one approved source when WKE quoted a lower price and faster delivery schedule, and when WKE had previously provided the same part to the government. We dismiss the protests as untimely. BACKGROUND On March 23, 2017, DLA issued the C587 RFQ requesting quotations on the DLA's Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS) to supply a quantity of 40 sector, pulley wheel, ejection seats (hereinafter pulley wheels), identified by national stock number (NSN) 1680-00-358-1632. C587 RFQ at 6. The solicitation requested quotations to be submitted by April 3. Id. at 1. On June 6, DLA issued the H699 RFQ requesting

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