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A G A O Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
approved for public release.
Decision
Matter of: Gear Wizzard, Inc.
File: B-298993
Date: January 11, 2007
Kirk J. McCormick, Esq., Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for the protester.
Gail L. Booth, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency.
Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency improperly rejected protester's proposal for failure to meet
approved source requirement is denied where, although protester proposed the part
of an approved source, additional information developed by agency showed that part
was to be manufactured by [DELETED] that was not contemplated by agency's
source approval.
DECISION
Gear Wizzard, Inc. (GWI) protests the award of a contract to Ruta Supplies, Inc.
under request for proposals (RFP) No. SP0750-06-R-4369, issued by the Defense
Logistics Agency (DLA), Defense Supply Center Columbus, for propeller shafts. GWI
asserts that the agency improperly rejected its proposal for failure to meet an
approved source requirement.
We deny the protest.
The RFP, issued on July 26, 2006, sought proposals for propeller shafts with a
universal joint, which were identified by national stock number 2520-01-459-0050 and
were further identified in a drawing attached to the RFP. Vendors were informed
that the propeller shafts were a critical application item, and that the cited drawing
was a source controlled drawing. There were two approved sources--AM General,
Inc. and Dana Corporation--and the solicitation identified the commercial and
government entity (CAGE) code associated with each firm's item, as well as each
firm's part number.
GWI timely submitted a proposal, offering to provide the Dana part. The contracting
officer subsequently determined that GWI intended to have the offered Dana part](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptaucl0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)