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B-414932 1 (2017-10-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtxh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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: W K Engineering International, Inc. File: B-414932 Date: October 13, 2017 Jonathan R. Hickman, Esq., Esquire Corporate Services, LC, for the protester. Ashley M. Kelly, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where a protester is not an approved source for items requiring source approval, protester is not an interested party to challenge the issuance of a purchase order for those items. 2. Protest alleging that agency unreasonably restricted competition for a critical application item to one approved source is dismissed as untimely where the protest ground was not raised before the closing date for receipt of quotations. DECISION W K Engineering International, Inc. (WKE), a small business located in Santa Clarita, California, protests the issuance of a purchase order to AMI Industries, Inc. (AMI), of Colorado Springs, Colorado, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPE4A7-17- T-H866, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for headrest pad assemblies associated with aircraft ejection seats. The protester contends that the award to AMI was improper because the protester's quotation was lower-priced and offered a shorter delivery period. The protester also contends that the solicitation unreasonably restricted competition to those quotations submitted by the approved source of supply. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND On June 7, 2017, DLA issued the RFQ on DLA's Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS) requesting quotations to supply 162 headrest pad assemblies, identified by national stock number (NSN) 1680-01-053-3072. RFQ at 8, 9. The solicitation also contained a

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