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B-415549 1 (2017-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduba0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Antico Cantiere Del Legno Giovanni Aprea Di Cataldo S.R.L. File: B-415549 Date: December 6, 2017 Dr. Matteo Zappile, USCOMED Consulting Services, for the protester. Robert L. Kois, Jr., Esq., and Scott E. Miller, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging solicitation requirements as unduly restrictive is denied where the record supports the agency's position that the requirement is reasonably necessary to meet the agency's needs. DECISION Antico Cantiere Del Legno Giovanni Aprea Di Cataldo S.R.L. (Antico), of Sorrento, Italy, challenges the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. N68171-18-Q-0003, issued by the Department of the Navy for storage and teak deck repair of the Grazia II, an Admiral's barge. The protester argues that the agency's requirement for hauling the Grazia II using a boat ramp, boat cradle, and winch heaving system is unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on October 12, 2017, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13, contemplated the award of a single, fixed-price contract on a lowest-price, technically acceptable basis to remove the Grazia I/ from the water; transport and place the craft into sheltered storage; and repair the existing teak decking and perform a visual inspection of the existing structure. See RFQ at 12-13; Agency Report (AR), Memorandum of Law (MOL) at 1. As relevant here, as part of the RFQ's requirements for dry-docking, the solicitation specifically required the following:

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