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B-418685 1 (2020-06-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebgn0001 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: Craft Bearing Company, Inc. File: B-418685 Date: June 22, 2020 Donald Moore, for the protester. Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Karly Newcomb, Raymond Richards, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the award of a subcontract is dismissed where the subcontract was not awarded by the government and the agency awarding the prime contract has not requested that subcontract protests be decided by our Office. DECISION Craft Bearing Company, Inc. (Craft Bearing), a veteran-owned small business of Newport News, Virginia, protests the award of a subcontract issued pursuant to a contract awarded by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel Command, under solicitation No. W56HZV-1 5-R-01 87, for the development, test, production, training, fielding, and support of the Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) (MSV(L)). The protester contends that the agency is not enforcing the Buy American Act and small business subcontracting plan requirements set forth in the prime contract. Specifically, Craft Bearing complains that the prime contractor and its subcontractor refuse to allow Craft Bearing to compete for a subcontract for bearings, and have instead awarded the subcontract to a large business with a manufacturing plant in England. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND On September 28, 2017, the Army awarded contract No. W56HZV-1 7-D-0086, a 10-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to Vigor Iron Works, LLC (Vigor). Req. for Dismissal at 2. The contract is for development, testing, production, training, fielding, and support of the MSV(L). Id.

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