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B-277362 1 (1997-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagby0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: All State Boiler Work, hie. File: B-277362 Date: October 3, 1997 Timothy T. Corey, Esq., Pepe & Hazard, for the protester. Sam Ridolfi for Frank Lil & Son, hie., an intervenor. George N. Brezna, Esq., Christopher M. Bellomy, Esq., and Howard B. Rein, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Linda Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly rejected as technically unacceptable a proposal which contained, despite repeated agency requests for correction, numerous deficiencies in the proposed schedule management that demonstrated the offeror's lack of understanding of the solicitation requirements and the sequence in which tasks were required to be performed. DECISION All State Boiler Work, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal as technically unacceptable and the award of a contract to Frank Lill & Son, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62472-94-R-0451, issued by the Department of the Navy for boiler plant modifications at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine. The protester maintains that its proposal provided a schedule that met the RFP's minimum requirements and that the evaluation and rejection are improper. We deny the protest. The RFP was issued on December 13, 1996, and contemplated the award of a firm, fixed-priced construction contract to the responsible, technically acceptable offeror whose proposal was determined to represent the best value to the government. The solicitation was for the modernization and conversion of four existing field erected boilers in the boiler plant to fire natural gas and #2 fuel oil as the plant fuels in lieu of #6 fuel oil. It also required the replacement of furnace refractory in three of the four boilers and the update of the plant to current environmental air emission requirements for the new fuels. Because the boiler plant load and standby

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