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B-400746,B-400747,B-400750,B-400751,B-400752,B-400785 1 (2009-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadash0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General KWn , Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Critical Process Filtration, Inc. File: B-400746, B-400747, B-400750, B-400751, B-400752, B-400785 Date: January 22, 2009 Brent Arbogast for the protester. Michael Walters, Esq., and Richard Ferguson, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's contentions that three agency procurements for brand-name filters improperly limit competition are denied where the record shows that the agency is procuring the brand-name items using simplified acquisition procedures and has adequately justified the use of its brand-name approach under the procedures applicable to simplified acquisitions. 2. Protester's contention that a fourth agency procurement for brand-name filters improperly limits competition is sustained where the procurement history information set forth in the solicitation shows that the value of the requirement is likely to exceed the applicable simplified acquisition threshold of $100,000; accordingly, the streamlined procedures applicable to simplified acquisitions cannot be used for this requirement. DECISION Critical Process Filtration, Inc. (CPF) of Nashua, New Hampshire, a small business, protests the terms of six solicitations by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for various types of brand-name fluid filters which are used in particular weapons systems. CPF argues that the solicitations lack essential information that would allow CPF to determine whether it can manufacture the filters itself, and therefore, whether to submit responses, and more broadly, that DLA has unjustifiably limited competition to specific brand-name items.

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