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B-416167,B-416167.2 1 (2018-06-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduum0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: File: Date: Trinity Ship Management, LLC B-416167; B-416167.2 June 19, 2018 David M. Sheehan, Esq., and Sima G. Fried, Esq., Thomas & Libowitz, P.A., for the protester. Rachel M. Kelly, Esq., and James P. Winthrop, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated r6sum6 for one of awardee's employees as acceptable is denied where the r6sum6 showed that the employee's experience and qualifications met the solicitation criteria. 2. Protest that agency misevaluated prices by including prices for mutually exclusive contract line items (CLIN) is dismissed where solicitation expressly provided that price evaluation would include all CLINs so the post-award challenge to price evaluation was an untimely challenge to the terms of the solicitation. 3. Protest that awardee's low price should have been rejected as a mistake or an intention to violate the terms of the solicitation is denied where protester's challenge lacked a factual basis for its claims, and did not meaningfully challenge the agency's determination that the awardee was a responsible offeror. DECISION Trinity Ship Management, LLC, of Portsmouth, Virginia, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Great Eastern Group, Inc. (GEG), of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, also a small business, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N001 89-17-R-0065, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, for

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