B-234628.2: Jun 5, 1989

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest of an Air Force solicitation for fuel foam kits. GAO had held that the protester failed to show that the Air Force acted fraudulently in setting aside the procurement. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that the Air Force did not have a reasonable basis to separately acquire the foam from a manufacturer and provide...

B-234628.2: Jun 5, 1989

DIGEST: General Accounting Office will not consider a protest of the decision of an agency to acquire raw material from a manufacturer and supply it to a section 8(a) concern for fabrication into the finished item. The foam kits are fabricated by first acquiring the bulk fuel foam from a foam manufacturer and then fabricating and cutting this foam into kits. Wilshire's protest is that the Air Forc...