A firm protested the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA) response to a corrective action recommendation, contending that DLA improperly required it to bear the expenses of source approval for its alternative units. GAO held that: (1) DLA reasonably determined that it would not absorb the costs of source approval testing, since the estimated potential annual cost savings from increased competition wer...

While the potential annual savings from increased competition is reasonably estimated to be less than $9. The procurement at issue is for 84 labyrinth seal ring assemblies. BWC alleges that the agency is improperly requiring BWC to bear the expenses of source approval for its alternative units. We found that DLA failed to provide BWC with a reasonable opportunity to compete because BWC was not pro...