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B-311225.4 1 (2009-02-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadasn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Abba International, Inc. et al. File: B-311225.4 Date: February 2, 2009 Alan F. Wohistetter, Esq., Denning & Wohistetter, for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq., and Bruce D. Ensor, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Pursuant to the bid protest authority granted GAO under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, GAO will consider a protest of the terms of a request for competitive rate tenders for transportation services, even though they are not subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, where the responses will form the basis for placement of government bills of lading for the services; however, GAO will not consider issues relating to the agency's decision not to include certain traffic channels in the request for rate tenders since this involves the exercise of the agency's business judgment and executive branch policy. 2. As a general rule, solicitations must contain sufficient information to allow offerors to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis, although there is no requirement that a solicitation contain such detail as to completely eliminate all risk or remove all uncertainty from the mind of every prospective offeror. DECISION Abba International, Inc. and 14 other firms protest the terms of a solicitation issued by the Department of the Army, United States Transportation Command, soliciting rate tenders from eligible Department of Defense (DoD) approved transportation service providers (TSP) to transport household goods, unaccompanied baggage and boat shipments between designated rate areas (traffic channels) through government

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