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B-401526.3 1 (2010-04-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbgk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Keystone Sealift Services, Inc. File: B-401526.3 Date: April 13, 2010 Andrew W. Dyer Jr., Esq., Brian A. Bannon, Esq., and Brian S. Gocial, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. J. Alex Ward, Esq., Daniel E. Chudd, Esq., and Caroline A. Keller, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for General Dynamics American Overseas Marine, an intervenor. Michelle L. Salter, Esq., Military Sealift Command, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably failed to consider offeror's conversion and re-flagging experience under maintenance and repair (M&R) evaluation subfactor, and that it otherwise unreasonably downgraded proposal for specific weaknesses under other subfactors, is denied, where proposal lacked detail on conversion/ re-flagging experience in M&R section, and evaluation record shows agency in fact did not downgrade proposal for other specific weaknesses identified by protester. DECISION Keystone Sealift Services, Inc. (KSS), of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to General Dynamics American Overseas Marine (AMSEA), of Quincy, Massachusetts, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00033-08-R-5302, issued by the Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command (MSC), for the operation and maintenance of large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off (LMSR) ships in the agency's surge project. KSS challenges the evaluation of its proposal. We deny the protest. The surge project, part of the agency's Sealift Program, involves the quick transition of ships from reduced to full operating status to move U.S. forces and military equipment to defend and promote vital U.S. interests anywhere in the world. Lot 1 of the RFP--the subject of KSS's protest--concerns seven BOB HOPE class LMSRs. Proposals were to include personnel, operational and technical support (ashore and afloat), equipment tools, and supplies, necessary to operate and maintain the vessels.

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