B-285341: Aug 18, 2000

McGregor Manufacturing Corporation (McGregor) protests the United States Army Aviation & Missile Command's (AMCOM) issuance of a delivery order to General Electric Company (GE) for deswirl ducts. The protester contends that the Army unreasonably determined that it had an urgent need for deswirl ducts and, therefore, improperly acquired them from GE on a sole-source basis without allowing McGregor...

B-285341: Aug 18, 2000

A large number of the parts were back-ordered. A number of helicopters for which the part were ordered were not able to perform their missions. The protester had experienced many performance delays and had not successfully produced even one usable item for the agency by the time the urgent buy was initiated. A deswirl duct is a component of the Hover Infra Red Suppressor System. Which is deployed...