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B-292511.4 1 (2004-03-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapht0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting 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. Decision Matter of: Alpha Marine Services, LLC File: B-292511.4; B-292511.5 Date: March 22, 2004 Michael R. Charness, Esq., and Amy R. Napier, Esq., Vinson & Elkins, for the protester. Wayne A. Keup, Esq., Jonathan K. Waldron, Esq., and David A. Leib, Esq., Blank Rome, for Ocean Services, LLC, the intervenor. Richard Knutsen, Esq., and David Townsend, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where proposal did not take exception to requirement in solicitation for the services of an oceanographic research vessel that the vessel be capable of a minimum transit speed of 12 knots, but rather specifically provided that the proposed vessel would comply, and there was no significant countervailing evidence reasonably known to the agency evaluators that should have created doubt whether the offeror would comply with the requirement, the proposal was reasonably evaluated by the agency as acceptable in this regard. DECISION Alpha Marine Services, LLC protests the Department of the Navy's award of a contract to Ocean Services, LLC, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00033-02-R-2009, for the time charter of a vessel to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) hydrographic survey program. Alpha asserts that the vessel proposed by Ocean does not meet the RFP's requirement that the vessel be capable of a minimum transit speed of 12 knots, and that the selection of Ocean's proposal for award was inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation. We deny the protest. The RFP provided for the award of a time-charter contract, for a base period of 1 year, with three 1-year and one 1 1-month option periods, for an oceanographic

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