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B-405221 1 (2011-09-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoom0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A 0 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 Decision _approved forpublic releas e. Matter of: Naiad Inflatables of Newport File: B-405221 Date: September 19, 2011 Mary Beth Bosco, Esq., and Elizabeth M. Gill, Esq., Patton Boggs LLP, for the protester. John J. Crowley Jr., Esq., Coale, Dukes, Kirkpatrick & Crowley, PC, for the intervenor. Timothy A. Chenault, Esq., and Wilbert Jones, Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of deficiencies, significant weaknesses, and weaknesses assigned to the protester's proposal is denied where the solicitation called for specific information that was not furnished in the protester's proposal and the record shows that the agency performed a reasonable evaluation in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION Naiad Inflatables of Newport, a firm from Portsmouth, Rhode Island, protests the award of four contracts for rigid hull Cutter Boat Over-The Horizon IV (CB-OTH-IV) boats under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCG23-11-R-ADBO13, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard. Naiad contends that the agency improperly evaluated its proposal and that the agency unreasonably refused to accept additional information from the protester after the due date for receipt of proposals. We deny the protest. The Coast Guard has an inventory of a variety of cutter ships--vessels that are 65 feet or longer and have adequate accommodations for a permanently assigned crew to live aboard. The Coast Guard also has an inventory of over 350 smaller boats of different sizes and shapes that are carried on board or deployed by a cutter. Because

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