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B-292511.2 1 (2003-11-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacymb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General ... .Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Ocean Services, LLC File: B-292511.2 Date: November 6, 2003 Wayne A. Keup, Esq., Jonathan K. Waldron, Esq., and David A. Leib, Esq., Blank Rome, for the protester. Richard Knutsen, Esq., and David Townsend, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Specifications in a solicitation for the time charter of an oceanographic research vessel to be used in performing hydrographic surveys in the Gulf of Mexico and near coastal areas of Alaska that mandate that the vessel meet certain enhanced safety- related requirements are not objectionable, given the environment in which the vessel will operate and the agency's desire to contract for a vessel that offers a greater level of safety for its crew than that advocated by the protester. 2. In taking corrective action in response to a protest of amending the solicitation, reopening discussions, and reevaluating proposals, agency did not act improperly in disclosing the offerors' total proposed prices (without disclosing the offerors by name or vessels proposed), given that the agency had disclosed one offeror's total price to certain of the other offerors during debriefings. DECISION Ocean Services, LLC protests request for proposals (RFP) No. N00033-02-R-2009, issued by the Department of the Navy, for the time charter of a vessel to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) hydrographic survey program. Ocean argues that the terms of the RFP, as amended, are overly restrictive, and that the agency improperly disclosed the prices proposed by offerors during the competition. We deny the protest.

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