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B-404802.3 1 (2011-07-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoht0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENTFoR-PUBICRELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: CCSC, Inc. File: B-404802.3 Date: July 18, 2011 Sam Z. Gdanski, Esq., and Scott H. Gdanski, Esq., Gdanski & Gdanski, LLP, for the protester. John Sabatino, Esq., and Christian Butler, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly rejected proposal as late is denied where the protester failed to allow adequate time for proposal to be processed through agency screening procedures at off-site location. DECISION CCSC, Inc., doing business as NaplesYacht.com, of Fort Myers, Florida, a small business, protests the rejection of its proposal by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSBP1 011 R0009 for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite- quantity contract to supply coastal interceptor vessels and associated equipment and training. CCSC argues that its proposal was improperly rejected as late for reasons primarily due to government misdirection. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The CBP issued the RFP on November 5, 2010, seeking commercial item proposals for a law enforcement variant of a commercially available vessel to be used in the CBP's maritime interdiction efforts. Agency Report (AR) at 2. Among other things, the vessel was required to carry a crew of three to four people, maneuver at high speed in close quarters, and have machine gun mounts. RFP, Statement of Work (SOW) at 1. The RFP provided that the CBP anticipated ordering up to 70 vessels, and that the Coast Guard might order additional vessels for its needs. Id.

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