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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
A protected decision was issued on the date below
and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This
version has been redacted or approved by the parties
involved for public release.
Matter of: Texstar, Inc.
File: B-275961; B-275980
Date: April 22, 1997
Gretchen A. Benolken, Esq., Fogle & Benolken, for the protester.
Michael A. Nemeroff, Esq., Sidley & Austin, for Sierracin/Sylmar, an intervenor.
Marian Sullivan, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Marie Penny Ahearn, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Multiple awardee on two solicitations for aircraft windshields is not entitled to
award for entire requirement under each contract by virtue of its status as a Blue
Ribbon Contractor (BRC), where each solicitation provided for two awards and
solicitations' BRC provisions were not intended to entitle any one offeror to more
than one of the two windshield awards under each solicitation.
DECISION
Texstar, Inc., an awardee under both Department of the Air Force request for
proposals (RFP) Nos. F41608-96-R-56510 and F41608-96-R-56511, for right- and
left-sided A-37/T-37 aircraft windshields, protests the award of contracts to
Sierracin/Sylmar (Sierracin) under the same solicitations.
We deny the protests.
Both RFPs solicited prices for initial definite and incremental indefinite quantities,
and for government-furnished tooling and contractor-manufactured tooling. Further,
both RFPs provided for multiple awards for sustaining multiple sources; two
contracts would be awarded, consisting of award of 50 percent of the initial order
quantity ... to each one of the two lowest evaluated offerors and award of
subsequent delivery orders based on a best value determination.1 The evaluation for
'In this regard, the RFPs specifically provided that [t]he purpose of this contractual
vehicle is to allow for the independent manufacture of the subject items in order to
help maintain presently qualified sources and to possibly assist in expanding the
industrial base with new manufactured tooling as required. Amendment No. 0002
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