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B-402743.2 1 (2010-11-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller 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: Camden Shipping Corporation File: B-402743.2 Date: November 5, 2010 Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Isaias Alba IV, Esq., Paralee White, Esq., and Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for the protester. Janis P. Rodriguez, Esq., and Ryan M. Kabacinski, Esq., Department of Transportation, 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 Where solicitation for ship manager services contained mandatory eligibility requirement that offerors must be operators or owner/operators of a vessel of a certain size and weight, agency's decision to eliminate the protester's proposal from consideration was reasonable where protester certified that it was not an operator or owner/operator of an appropriate vessel. DECISION Camden Shipping Corporation, of Bordentown, New Jersey, protests the rejection of its proposal under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTMA8RO9011, issued by the Department of Transportation (DOT), Maritime Administration, for ship manager services for 10 ships. The protester argues that the agency improperly rejected its proposal for failing to comply with a mandatory eligibility requirement. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on March 12, 2010, contemplated the award of multi-year, fixed-price service contract with cost reimbursable items. As stated in the RFP, the selected contractor will be responsible for the maintenance and operation of 10 very

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