A firm protested the Army's rejection of its bid for freight containers, contending that its remanufacturing of foreign-supplied containers would transform the products into domestically produced items, thereby adhering to the solicitation's requirements for domestically produced products. GAO held that the Army properly rejected the protester's bid, since the solicitation restricted the use of fo...

Agency properly rejected quotation which indicated that the vendor would supply foreign-made end item because such set-asides are restricted to sources supplying domestically produced products. The RFQ was issued as a small business set-aside for 74 steel dry freight containers /1/ under the streamlined commercial acquisition procedures set forth in Subpart 12.6 of the Federal Acquisition Regulati...