B-278648: Feb 23, 1998

A firm protested a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) contract award for flash butt welded, stud link anchor chain, contending that: (1) DLA improperly failed to evaluate the bidders compliance with the domestic manufacturing requirements; and (2) the awardee's anchor chain would not be manufactured in the United States and therefore should have been rejected in accordance with the Department of Defen...

B-278648: Feb 23, 1998

1998) for domestic manufacture of anchor chain is denied where record shows that award complies with statutory requirements for domestic manufacture of the chain (the studs and links will be welded. The stud link chain will be produced. For the components of that chain to be substantially manufactured in the United States (only one component (the studs) will be manufactured outside of the United S...