United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1997-11-04 monographic deposited born digital 6 p. GA 1.13:B-277660 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-277660 P0b002ee18fd46c71 f:277660 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-277660 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-277660 B-277660 Comptroller General Decision

Agency reasonably did not invite protester to compete for emergency contract to provide a relatively small quantity of instrument mounting bezels for use in helicopters until agency can make award of a contract for a large number of bezels pursuant to a competitive procurement where: (1) bezels are critical to flying the helicopters safely; (2) agency had no bezels in its inventory and a large number of bezels were on back-order; (3) a number of helicopters were already grounded because of lack of bezels and more were expected to be grounded in the immediate future; (4) protester had never supplied these bezels to the agency and its bezels would, therefore, have to pass first article testing before the agency would consider them acceptable; and (5) in view of urgent circumstances, agency was unwilling to incur delay associated with first article testing and risk that the protester's bezels might not pass first article tests. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-277660/html/GAOREPORTS-B-277660.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-277660/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-277660.pdf GAO/B-277660 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-277660 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-277660; Sun Dial and Panel Corporation, B-277660, November 4, 1997; Title 10 Section 2304(c)(2) Title 10 Section 2304(e) 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(2) 10 U.S.C. 2304(e)