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B-309982 1 (2007-10-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauja0001 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: Pacific Lock Company File: B-309982 Date: October 25, 2007 James H. Roberts, III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Kelly PLLC, for the protester. Nicole E. Goldstein, Esq., Edward H. Meyers, Esq., and Robert S. Ryland, Esq., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, an intervenor. Robert L. Mercadante, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protestor's allegation that the agency failed to apply the proper criteria in determining that protestor's offered padlocks did not comply with the solicitation's requirement for U.S.-made locks is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that a lock consisting of components made in China but assembled in the United States did not meet the requirements of the Trade Agreements Act. DECISION Pacific Lock Company (PLC) protests the rejection of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPM5L5-07-R-0056, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), to purchase low security padlocks and padlock sets. PLC contends that the agency failed to use the proper criteria in determining that its products were not U.S.-made end-products, as required by the RFP. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on February 5, 2007, contemplated the award of one or more fixed- price, indefinite-quantity contracts for low security padlocks and padlock sets. RFP at 1, 7, and 55. The solicitation required offerors to provide U.S.-made, qualifying

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