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B-414148 1 (2017-02-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtmo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: TransAtlantic Lines, LLC File: B-414148 Date: February 7, 2017 Daniel J. Kelly, Esq., McCarter & English, LLP, for the protester. Chad Diederich, Esq., Allison McDade, Esq., Tricia A. Nicewicz, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the exclusion of the protester's proposal from the competitive range is denied where the agency's evaluation and competitive range determination were reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation criteria. DECISION TransAtlantic Lines, LLC (TAL), of Greenwich, Connecticut, protests the Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command's (MSC) exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. N32205-16-R-3505, to provide a clean, double-hull tanker with identified minimum specifications and capabilities to be chartered by MSC for worldwide cargo transportation. The protester asserts that the agency unreasonably found its proposal to be technically unacceptable, and unreasonably excluded the protester's proposal from the competitive range. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP sought proposals for the award of a fixed-price contract for a double-hull tanker for worldwide cargo transportation. Award would be made on a lowest-priced, technically acceptable basis. RFP at 89. Specifically, to be considered for award, an offeror must receive an acceptable rating under the technical and past performance factors and provide an offer that conforms to the solicitation requirements. Id. at 6-8, 89. As relevant to this protest, the RFP required that the technical proposal include a practicable schedule for the delivery of the Vessel. RFP at 85, § 7.1.7. The

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