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B-309946 1 (2007-10-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauiw0001 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 version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Brinkmann Instruments, Inc. File: B-309946; B-309946.2 Date: October 15, 2007 J. Michael Littlejohn, Esq., Hal J. Perloff, Esq., and Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Akerman Senterfitt Wickwire Gavin, for the protester. Robert Kois, Esq., and Richard Martinelli, Esq., Naval Supply Systems Command, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's proposed award of a sole-source contract for autotitrators to be used in nuclear submarines is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that it needed to acquire the same autotitrator previously fielded on other nuclear submarines for purposes of standardization and safety across the nuclear submarine fleet. DECISION Brinkmann Instruments, Inc. protests the proposed sole-source award of a contract to Mettler-Toledo, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N00104-07-Q-VY68, issued by the Naval Supply Systems Command, Department of the Navy, for 33 Mettler DL77 Navy autotitrators. We deny the protest. On July 23, 2007, the Navy published in FedBizOpps a presolicitation notice of its intention to procure, on a sole-source basis, 33 DL 77 Navy autotitrators from Mettler to be used onboard its 688 Class and 726 Class nuclear submarines. Currently, the Mettler unit is installed onboard 44 of the Navy's nuclear submarines and is used to automate the chemistry analysis of steam and steam plant water samples. As explained by the Navy, 22 of the 33 units are to be used for On Board Repair Parts,

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