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B-297137 1 (2005-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqzf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Testek, Inc. File: B-297137 Date: October 28, 2005 Sanjiv Joshi for the protester. Robert Sebold, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where agency reasonably determined offeror's proposed alternative approach to meeting sole-source requirement did not comply with solicitation criteria. DECISION Testek, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Avtron Manufacturing, Inc. under solicitation No. SP0490-05-R-0489, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for the upgrade and modernization of aircraft generator test stands. The protester argues that the agency improperly solicited the requirement on a sole-source basis and improperly rejected its alternative proposal as technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On April 8, 2005, the agency issued a presolicitation notice stating that the agency intended to procure on a sole-source basis modernization and upgrades for three Avtron generator drive test stands, model Nos. 738/K and 400, at the Naval Aviation Depot, Naval Air Station, North Island, in San Diego, California.' The test stands are used to measure the performance of generators that provide power for various 1 The solicitation notes that the Avtron test stands, model Nos. 738/K and 400, are effectively the same models.

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