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B-274507 1 (1996-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeme0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Eclypse International Corporation File: B-274507 Date: November 12, 1996 Avinash Shah for the protester. Thomas F. Brown and Mark Frazier, Esq., the Department of the Air Force, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Military agency reasonably awarded a contract on a sole source basis for urgently required deployable circuit analyzers for use in helicopter maintenance and repair to the only approved source of the items, where the record evidences that no other source is or will become an approved source of the circuit analyzers in time to meet the urgent requirement. DECISION Eclypse International Corporation protests the award of a contract on a sole source basis to DIT-MCO International under request for proposal (RFP) No. F41608-96- R-29699, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for circuit analyzers used in the repair and maintenance of the MH-60G helicopter. We deny the protest. The agency conducted a market survey in November 1995 for the circuit analyzers, and determined that DIT-MCO was the only approved source for circuit analyzers that could meet its needs. In order to develop alternative sources for the circuit analyzers, the agency had a sources sought synopsis published in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) in December. Eclypse responded to the sources sought synopsis by letter dated January 11, 1996. In its response, Eclypse provided descriptive information regarding its circuit analyzers, and informed the agency that the Department of the Navy had 62 of these units deployed. On February 9, the agency had a synopsis published in the CBD that announced a proposed sole source award to DIT-MCO for four shop electronic test sets or circuit analyzers, and 13 smaller, deployable circuit analyzers, with a delivery date of December 31, 1996. The synopsis stated that the agency's proposed sole source 4191112

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