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         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:  Liberty Terminals LLC

          File:        B-403869

          Date:        December  21, 2010

          Edwin W. Johnson  II, Esq., McNair Law Firm, PA, for the protester.
          Wade  L. Brown, Esq., Vera Meza, Esq., and John Dowling, Esq., Department of the
          Army, for the agency.
          Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest against evaluation of proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where
          the record reasonably supports the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal as
          unacceptable under various technical evaluation subfactors.
          DECISION

          Liberty Terminals LLC, of Savannah, Georgia, protests the award of a contract to
          Marine Terminals Corporation East (MTCE), of Savannah, Georgia, under request for
          proposals (RFP) No. W81GYE-09-R-0042, issued by the Department of the Army,
          Surface Deployment and Distribution Command  (SDDC),  841st Terminal
          Transportation Battalion, North Charleston, South Carolina, for stevedoring and
          related terminal services. Liberty challenges the evaluation of the proposals.

          We deny the protest.

          The RFP, issued on January 6, 2010, sought proposals for stevedoring and related
          terminal services at ports located in Charleston, South Carolina; Savannah, Georgia;
          and Wilmington and Morehead  City, North Carolina, under an indefinite-
          delivery/indefinite-quantity, fixed-price contract. Award was provided for on a
          best-value basis considering technical factors and price. The technical factors and
          subfactors were:

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