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B-292445.3 1 (2003-12-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyne0001 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: Marine Metal, Inc. File: B-292445.3 Date: December 19, 2003 Manuela Perez for the protester. Janis P. Rodriguez, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where an invitation for bids for the dismantling of up to four ships does not prohibit all or none bids, a bid that expressly states it is a package bid for the complete dismantling of two named ships is an all or none bid for those ships and cannot be considered for award of only one of the ships. DECISION Marine Metal, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Bay Bridge Enterprises, LLC under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DTMA1BO3015, issued by Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation, for dismantling and disposing of four ships located in the James River Reserve Fleet, Virginia. We deny the protest. The IFB, issued February 21, 2003, used the two-step sealed bidding process under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 14.5. Step one solicited technical proposals to dismantle one or more of the following four ships: the Santa Isabel, the Mormacdawn, the Santa Elena and the Catawba Victory. The offerors who submitted technically acceptable step one proposals would be eligible for the step two sealed bid price competition. Marine Metal, Bay Bridge, ESCO Marine, and two other offerors submitted technically acceptable step one proposals. On May 27, the agency issued amendment 0002 to the IFB, which solicited the step two sealed bids. The IFB permitted bids on one, all or any combination of ships; however, a separate bid price must be submitted for each vessel bid. IFB amend. 2, H§ L-9, L-10.B. The IFB also provided, A separate bid must be submitted for each

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