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B-297378 1 (2006-01-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasmf0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Meggitt Safety Systems, Inc. File: B-297378; B-297378.2 Date: January 12, 2006 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. Robert R. Fleck, Esq., and Robert E. Vollmar II, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's sole-source acquisition of urgently required automatic fire suppression systems is denied where record shows agency adequately investigated protester's capabilities, and reasonably concluded that protester would not be able to timely meet agency's requirements. DECISION Meggitt Safety Systems, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's award of contract No. W56HZV-05-C-0773 to Kidde Technologies, Inc., dba Kidde Dual Spectrum (KDS), for a quantity of automatic fire suppression systems (AFSS) to be installed in the U.S. Marine Corps's light armored vehicles. Meggitt asserts that the agency improperly awarded the contract on a sole-source basis. We deny the protest. The Marine Corps employs a family of light armored vehicles (LAV) used in various military missions throughout the world. Based on experience during the war in Iraq, it was determined that the LAVs required a survivability upgrade consisting of upgraded armor plating and installation of AFSS on all vehicles currently in the agency's inventory, as well as a number of additional LAVs that the agency intends to field in support of additional Marine Corps companies.' (The survivability upgrade 1 The vehicles at issue here are designated as LAV A2; this designation is being assigned to these vehicles to connote that they have received the survivability upgrade at issue. Previously, these vehicles were designated as LAV Al. Hearing (continued...)

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