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B-292964 1 (2003-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyoa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller General ....Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States 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: Universal Marine & Industrial Services, Inc. File: B-292964 Date: December 23, 2003 Jeffrey A. Lovitky, Esq., for the protester. Jeannie Wallace Thorn for Wallace Fabrication L.L.C., an intervenor. Talbot J. Nicholas II, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's affirmative determination of awardee's responsibility is denied where record does not support allegation that contracting officer failed to consider available relevant information, and there is no showing of a violation of statute or regulation. DECISION Universal Marine & Industrial Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Wallace Fabrication L.L.C. under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DTCG23-03-B-TCB014, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, for steel ocean buoys. Universal principally asserts that the agency improperly determined that Wallace was a responsible prospective contractor. We deny the protest. The IFB, issued on July 8, 2003 as a small business set-aside, provided for the award of a requirements contract for a base year, with four 1-year options. The agency received 11 bids, including Universal's (the incumbent contractor) and Wallace's. Wallace's bid was low at $10,972,440, and Universal's was second low at $12,168,849. On September 16, the agency conducted a preaward survey at Wallace's leased facility on Middle Road in Mobile, Alabama to determine the firm's responsibility. The contracting officer completed a Determination on Prospective Contractor Responsibility form for Wallace, indicating that the agency had conducted an on-site preaward survey, and found that Wallace was satisfactory on all relevant factors,

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