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B-400224.2 1 (2008-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawbr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General = = Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Hendry Corporation File: B-400224.2 Date: August 25, 2008 Kent P. Smith, Esq., Smith Currie & Hancock LLP, for the protester. Bruce C. Smith, Esq., Robert C. Threlkeld, Esq., and James M. Johnson, Esq., Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, for RiverHawk Marine, LLC, the intervenor. Wilbert Jones, Esq., U.S. Coast Guard, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging contracting officer's affirmative determination of responsibility regarding the awardee is dismissed where the assertion on which the protest is based-failure to consider allegedly poor business performance by principal members of the awardee during their association with a previous firm-does not constitute the type of information that, by its nature, would be expected to have a strong bearing on whether the awardee should be found responsible, as required under Government Accountability Office (GAO) Bid Protest Regulations for GAO review of such a protest. DECISION Hendry Corporation protests the award of a contract to RiverHawk Marine, LLC by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Coast Guard under request for quotations No. HSCG80-08-Q-3FAD73 for dry-dock repairs to a Coast Guard cutter. Hendry challenges the agency's determination that RiverHawk is a responsible firm on two grounds. Hendry alleges that three founding members of RiverHawk do not have a satisfactory record of performance, integrity, and business ethics, Protest at 3, because, during their course of employment at a previous firm, they took action that resulted in the bankruptcy of that company and default on two Coast Guard

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