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          G     A    O                                                   Comptroller General
4       Accountabilty * 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.
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           Matter of:  Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.; VT Halter Marine, Inc.

           File:       B-409541; B-409541.2; B-409541.3; B-409541.4; B-409541.5

           Date:       June 2, 2014

           John W. Chierichella, Esq., Anne B. Perry, Esq., Townsend L. Bourne, Esq., and
           Matthew W. Turetzky, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for
           Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.; John E. McCarthy Jr., Esq., Richard W. Arnholt,
           Esq., Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., Grant J. Book, Esq., Olivia L. Lynch, Esq., Robert J.
           Sneckenberg, Esq., and Gordon Griffin, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for VT Halter
           Marine, Inc., the protesters.
           Kevin C. Dwyer, Esq., Daniel E. Chudd, Esq., Ethan E. Marsh, Esq., James A.
           Tucker, Esq., and David A. Churchill, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for Bath Iron Works
           Corporation; Joseph A. Artabane, Esq., Artabane & Belden, PC, and Matthew A.
           Lafferman, Esq., DiMuroGinsburg, PC, for Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc.; Marcus
           B. Slater Jr., Esq., and Jennifer J. Zeien, Esq., Slater & Zeien, LLP, for Bollinger
           Shipyards Lockport, LLC, the intervenors.
           William H. Butterfield, Esq., Eric J. Nestor, Esq., and Andrew F. Squire, Esq., United
           States Coast Guard, for the agency.
           Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General
           Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           1. Protests challenging an agency's past performance evaluation are denied where
           the agency reasonably considered past performance information received in
           response to questionnaires, the past performance information retrieval system, and
           follow-up conversations regarding recent and relevant contracts consistent with the
           solicitation's evaluation criteria.

           2. Protest that an agency disparately evaluated offerors' under technical and past
           performance criteria is denied where the agency reasonably recognized that the
           offerors presented differing technical solutions and past performance records.
           DECISION

           Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and VT Halter
           Marine, Inc., also of Pascagoula, protest the award of contracts to Bath Iron Works

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