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B-270236 1 (1996-02-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadxo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Dynamic Instruments, Inc. File: B-270236 Date: February 20, 1996 Paul F. Whitten, Sr., for the protester. John B. Denniston, Esq., and Jason A. Levine, Esq., Covington & Burling, for Mechanical Technology Inc., an intervenor. David M. Hill, Esq., and Richard P. Castiglia, Jr., Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. C. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly rejected protester's offered equipment under proposed sole-source procurement is denied where record shows that protester's equipment, an engine balancing system, did not meet the agency's minimum needs because of the system's limited ability to provide real-time data on engine vibration levels. DECISION Dynamic Instruments, Inc. protests the sole-source award of a contract to Mechanical Technology Inc. (MTI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. F41608-95-R-0239, issued by the Department of the Air Force for a portable balancing system. We deny the protest. On March 8, 1995, the agency issued the solicitation for a fixed-price requirements contract for a PBS 4100 portable balancing system, plus accessories, for the F108 engine used in the KC-135R aerial tanker. The agency subsequently executed a justification and approval (J & A) authorizing the use of other than full and open competition. That J & A identifies MTI as the only source for the PBS 4100, based on the agency's lack of technical data and drawings necessary for any other firm to manufacture the PBS 4100. The J & A and the synopsis that the agency published in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) described the PBS 4100 as follows: 1110220

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