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B-402970 1 (2010-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbkq0001 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: PDL Toll File: B-402970 Date: August 11, 2010 Robert E. Korroch, Esq., Francis E. Purcell, Esq., and William Wozniak, Esq., Williams Mullen, for the protester. Mark W. Golden, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's issuance of a solicitation for ship husbanding services for Navy vessels visiting ports in Australia, which provides for award on a low-priced, technically- acceptable basis rather than on a best value basis, is unobjectionable, where the requirements were relatively noncomplex and involved little performance risk, and the solicitation contained estimated quantities. 2. Protest that solicitation for ship husbanding services is defective for failing to include all its ship requirements at the various ports is denied, where the agency reasonably determined to include only those requirements where estimated quantities could be provided. DECISION PDL Toll, of Melbourne, Australia, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. N40345-10-R-0070, issued by the Department of the Navy, for ship husbanding services for Navy vessels visiting ports in Australia. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplates the award of a fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite- quantity contract for a base year, with a 6-month option period, to the responsible offeror who submits the lowest price, technically acceptable offer with acceptable or neutral past performance. RFP at 71. With respect to evaluation of past performance, the RFP provided that each offeror's performance will be considered under existing and prior contracts for similar services. Id. The RFP further provided

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