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B-290181 1 (2002-06-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoew0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Starfleet Marine Transportation, Inc. File: B-290181 Date: July 5, 2002 Deborah Y. Ho, Esq., David E. Frulla, Esq., and Stanley M. Brand, Esq., Brand & Frulla, for the protester. Gretchen L. Gaston, Esq., and William P. Horn, Esq., Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot, for Fort Sumter Tours, Inc., an intervenor. Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Pamela L. Barkin, Esq., Alton E. Woods, Esq., and Hugo Teufel, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest concerning the award of a concession contract is for consideration under General Accounting Office's bid protest function where the concession contract includes the delivery of property or services to the government. 2. Decision by the National Park Service to cancel a concession contract prospectus in order to review agency requirements is unobjectionable where the action was reasonable and consistent with applicable regulations. DECISION Starfleet Marine Transportation, Inc. protests the decision by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS), to cancel the prospectus seeking proposals for the award of a concession contract for the operation of a ferryboat transportation service for Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina, and to extend the contract of the incumbent, Fort Sumter Tours, Inc. (FST). Starfleet principally alleges that the decision by the NPS to cancel the prospectus lacked a reasonable basis, and was the result of improper congressional interference. We deny the protest. Fort Sumter, the site at which the first shots of the American Civil War were fired, is an island fort located at the entrance of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. An

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