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B-405446 1 (2011-11-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoio0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENTFoR-PUBICRELEASE 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: Southern Recycling, L.L.P. File: B-405446 Date: November 3, 2011 Marc C. Hebert, Esq., and Stanley A. Millan, Esq., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre L.L.P., for the protester. Janis P. Rodriguez, Esq., and Joanne Burrus, Esq., Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation's price evaluation criterion is unduly restrictive is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably determined to consider the additional costs to the government for required dry-dock cleaning of vessels for offerors proposing recycling outside the San Francisco Bay area. DECISION Southern Recycling, L.L.P. and its subsidiary, International Shipbreaking Limited, LLC (ISL), of New Orleans, Louisiana (hereinafter collectively referred to as Southern), protest the terms of request for sales offers No. SDPEXC-08001, Announcement July 22, 2011, issued by the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) for purchase for dismantlement of four non-retention vessels held in the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet (SBRF) in Benicia, California. Southern asserts that the price evaluation and best value criteria are inappropriate for a sales contract. We deny the protest. MARAD maintains the NDRF, which is comprised of vessels owned by the United States for national defense purposes. Those NDRF vessels which are not part of the Ready Reserve Fleet are to be disposed of by MARAD either through sale or purchase of disposal services. To accomplish its disposal mission, MARAD developed a two-step process. Under Step One, the agency evaluates potential offerors' comprehensive general technical proposals (GTP) to assess their technical

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