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B-405705 1 (2011-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadokg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General LAccountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of. Sealift Inc. File: B-405705 Date: December 8, 2011 Alan Adler, Sealift Inc., for the protester. Kevin P. Callahan, for Teras BBC Ocean Navigation Enterprises Houston, LLC, an intervenor. Scott S. Sheffler, Esq., Military Sealift Command, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where proposal for ship charter services did not take exception to requirements in solicitation that the proposed vessel meet certain draft and cargo capability requirements, but specifically provided that the proposed vessel would comply, and where there was no significant countervailing evidence reasonably known to the agency evaluators that should have created doubt about whether the offeror would comply with the requirements, the proposal was reasonably evaluated by the agency as acceptable. DECISION Sealift Inc., of Oyster Bay, New York, protests the Military Sealift Command's (MSC) award of a contract to Teras BBC Ocean Navigation Enterprises Houston, LLC (Teras BBC), of Bellaire, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00033-11-R- 5500, for ship charter services. Sealift asserts that the vessel offered by Teras BBC was incapable of performing the requirements of the RFP and that therefore the awardee's proposal was technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. The RFP was issued on May 11, 2011, for the time charter of a dry cargo container ship with the capability to carry ammunition. Agency Report (AR) at 3. The ship was expected to be deployed between the U.S. East Coast and the Arabian Gulf to support resupply operations in the Arabian Gulf. RFP at 22; see AR at 3. Award was

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