DIGEST Combination of system requirements in single acquisition is unobjectionable where procurement involves a foreign military sale and the foreign customer on whose behalf the procurement is being conducted has requested that all system components be acquired under a consolidated procurement. DAAH01-98-R-0403 seeking proposals for specified quantities of the components which comprise the TOW 2...

A firm protested an Army solicitation for foreign military sales acquisition of TOW 2 Launcher Systems and associated auxiliary equipment, contending that the solicitation improperly restricted competition by combining procurements for two system components. GAO held that the combination of system requirements was unobjectionable because the foreign military sales customer requested that all syste...