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B-290598 1 (2002-08-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaogf0001 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: Chenega Management, LLC File: B-290598 Date: August 8, 2002 Lewis R. Ivers for the protester. Janis P. Rodriguez, Esq., Maritime Administration, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Compelling reason existed to cancel invitation for bids (IFB) after bid opening where IFB required performance of services that would be impossible to perform within the required time period. DECISION Chenega Management, LLC protests the decision of the Maritime Administration (MARAD) to cancel invitation for bids (IFB) DTMA1B01009, for layberthing services in the U.S. Pacific Northwest region. Chenega asserts that it met the IFB requirements and that the cancellation resulted from agency bad faith. We deny the protest. MARAD maintains and operates the ready reserve force (RRF), a U.S. government- owned fleet of commercially designed ships of various configurations and capabilities that must respond, with 4, 5, 10, or 20 days' notice, to national emergency sealift requirements, particularly the movement of military unit equipment. The berthing of inactive RRF ships may be either at an outported layberth or a reserve fleet anchorage site. Outporting is the berthing of RRF ships at or near initial loadout or industrial activation sites. The IFB was issued to obtain outported layberthing services for two roll-on/roll-off vessels, the Cape Intrepid and the Cape Island, on the coast of the Pacific Northwest. Chenega, a small disadvantaged business, was the apparent low bidder, but during the preaward survey the agency found Chenega incapable of performing two support service requirements. Specifically, the IFB identified five services that must be

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