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B-294600 1 (2004-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptappa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity * Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Moog Inc. File: B-294600 Date: November 12, 2004 Martin G. Bobak for the protester. Victor G. Vogel, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation for maintenance and overhaul services of a flight safety part should not be set aside for exclusive small businesses participation is denied, where although the protester contends that the services can only be acquired from approved sources, the procuring agency states that these services need not be acquired from approved sources and where the agency has twice previously acquired these services from a small business concern under acquisitions that were set aside exclusively for small business participation. DECISION Moog Inc. protests the decision of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) to issue request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAH23-03-R-0668, for the overhaul and upgrade of UH-60 pitch trim actuators, as a small business set-aside. Moog, the original equipment manufacturer of the actuator, contends that only an approved source may perform the necessary work, and that the agency lacked a reasonable basis for setting aside the procurement because no small businesses have been approved to perform the requirement. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on June 30, 2004, contemplates the award of a 5-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity fixed-price contract for the overhaul,

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