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B-416704.3 1 (2019-05-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzft0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision 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: Mechanix Wear, Inc. File: B-416704.3 Date: May 6, 2019 Frank S. Murray, Esq., David T. Ralston, Jr., Esq., Micah T. Zomer, Esq., and Krista A. Nunez, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for the protester. Allison Colsey Eck, 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 challenging solicitation's domestic source restriction is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the restriction was required by the Berry Amendment. DECISION Mechanix Wear, Inc., a small business located in Valencia, California, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE1 C1-1 8-R-0093, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for the procurement of Army combat gloves with capacitive capability, i.e., the capability to be used with touchscreens. The protester contends that the solicitation improperly applied the Berry Amendment to impose a domestic sourcing requirement on the processing of one of the glove components. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued on July 3, 2018, seeking to award an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a 1-year base period and three 1-year option periods for the order of combat gloves with capacitive capability. RFP at 9. The solicitation anticipated an estimated quantity of 200,000 pairs of gloves in the base period and 210,000 pairs for each option period. Id. at 13. The total number of gloves that could be potentially acquired under the resulting contract was 1,037,500 pairs. Id. The solicitation included Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) clause 252.225-7012, Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities, which

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