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B-409186,B-409186.2 1 (2014-02-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqbm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Moboco, Inc. File: B-409186; B-409186.2 Date: February 5, 2014 James Lindquist for the protester. Elin M. Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably rejected protester's application for special-use permit for water transportation services where the application failed to meet requirements stated in prospectus. DECISION Moboco, Inc., of Wetmore, Michigan, protests the issuance of a special-use permit to Seaberg Contracting, Inc., of Munising, Michigan, under a concession prospectus issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service for a permit to provide passenger and vehicle water transportation services for the Grand Island National Recreation Area in the Hiawatha National Forest.' The protester argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated its submission as having several deficiencies, which rendered the submission unacceptable. We deny the protest. In 2013, the agency issued a prospectus soliciting applications for the issuance of a special-use permit granting the permit holder the exclusive right to provide passenger ferrying services and vehicle ferrying services to Grand Island National 1 The agency issued the prospectus for the award of the special-use permit pursuant to its authority under the Granger-Thye Act, as codified at 16 U.S.C. § 580d, which establishes that the Forest Service may permit private entities to use land or structures under the agency's administrative control.

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