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B-417844.3 1 (2020-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebld0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: American Energy Logistics Solutions LLC File: B-417844.3 Date: July 23, 2020 Daniel P. Graham, Esq., John M. Satira, Esq., and Peter T. Thomas, Esq., Vinson & Elkins LLP, for the protester. Bryant E. Gardner, Esq., Zachary B. Cohen, Esq., and Allison Skopec, Esq., Winston & Strawn LLP, for Schuyler Line Navigation Company, LLC, the intervenor. Yevgeniy P. Malashenok, Esq., and Louise E. Hansen, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging a determination that the protester was nonresponsible is denied where the contracting officer's judgment that protester did not have adequate financial resources to perform, or ability to obtain them, was reasonably based. DECISION American Energy Logistics Solutions LLC (AELS), of New York, New York, protests the award of a contract to Schuyler Line Navigation Company, LLC, of Annapolis, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE604-18-R-0406, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for the supply and delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The protester challenges the agency's finding that AELS was not responsible because the firm lacked adequate financial resources to perform the contract, or the ability to obtain them. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on June 8, 2018, pursuant to the procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15, for the supply and delivery of an estimated 2,252,171 million British Thermal Units of LNG. Agency Report (AR), Tab 21, RFP at 3;

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