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SG A O Comptroller General
! Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
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.
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Matter of: TransAtlantic Lines, LLC
File: B-411846.3; B-411846.4
Date: May 18, 2016
Brian S. Gocial, Esq., Albert B. Krachman, Esq., Scott Arnold, Esq., and Christian
N. Curran, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester.
Michael G. McCormack, Esq., Department of the Air Force, Peter Ries, Esq., and
Robert Bowers, Esq., Department of Defense, U.S. Transportation Command, for
the agencies.
Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest of an agency's price evaluation is denied where the agency reasonably
evaluated the protester's ocean shipping rates consistent with the terms of the
solicitation and the Cargo Preference Act of 1904.
DECISION
TransAtlantic Lines, LLC, a small business located in Greenwich, Connecticut,
protests the rejection of hundreds of its proposed ocean shipping rates under
request for proposals (RFP) No. HTC711-15-R-W002, issued by the Department
of Defense (DOD), U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), for international
cargo transportation. TransAtlantic contends that the agency's price evaluation was
inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation and violated the Cargo Preference Act
of 1904.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The Cargo Preference Act of 1904, as amended, (CPA) provides that:
[o]nly vessels of the United States or belonging to the United States
may be used in the transportation by sea of supplies bought for the
Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps. However, if the President](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadsgv0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)