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B-421411 Apr 14, 2023 1 (2023-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaoonb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Chase Defense Partners File: B-421411 Date: April 14, 2023 Alan Grayson, Esq., for the protester. Jaime Molbreak, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Emily R. O'Hara, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of solicitation for power cable assemblies from a single approved source is denied where the record shows that the agency is procuring an approved source item and the agency's determination to use the single approved source was reasonable. DECISION Chase Supply, Inc. d/b/a Chase Defense Partners, of Hampton, Virginia, protests the terms of a solicitation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPE4A6-23-Q-0403, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for power cable assemblies. The protester contends that the agency's procurement of the power cable assemblies from a single approved source is unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the current RFQ on January 3, 2023, under the simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13.1 AR, Exh. 1, RFQ at 1-2. 1 The agency has issued several solicitations related to the procurement of this item. See, e.g., Agency Report (AR), Exh. 11, May 2022 RFQ. Chase has protested two of the previous solicitations, and in each instance, DLA took corrective action and canceled the solicitation. Chase Supply, Inc., d/b/a Chase Defense Partners, B-420819, July 1, 2022 (unpublished decision); Chase Supply, Inc., d/b/a Chase Defense Partners, B-421253, Dec. 8, 2022 (unpublished decision).

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