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B-293370 1 (2004-03-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaplb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: CM Manufacturing, Inc. File: B-293370 Date: March 2, 2004 Ken Johnson for the protester. Curtis D. Elton, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency did not deny protester the opportunity to qualify as a source for solicited part by failing to include in the solicitation a description of required anodizing procedures for the item being procured where those procedures were clear from information furnished to the protester and where engineer responsible for qualification personally explained to the protester the required anodizing process and the reason for it while reviewing its qualification request. DECISION CM Manufacturing, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Goodrich Landing Gear under request for proposals (RFP) No. F42630-03-R-3424, issued by the Department of the Air Force for bungee assemblies for the F-15 aircraft. The protester contends that the Air Force denied it the opportunity to qualify as a source for the item prior to the date of award by failing to include in the RFP information that it required to obtain a waiver of the qualification requirements. We deny the protest. The RFP notified prospective offerors that the acquisition was restricted to qualified sources and identified as approved sources Goodrich and four other firms, not including the protester. The solicitation advised that to become a qualified source, an offeror would be required to provide a pre-contract award qualification article meeting the requirements of the engineering drawings, material specifications, and process drawings; it also provided for the possibility of waiver of the above requirement, however, as follows:

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