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B-419940.3,B-419940.4 Dec 27, 2021 1 (2021-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaompk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 1O 0 U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 Comptroller General of the United States Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. The entire decision has been approved for public release. Matter of: Shamrock Marine Towing & Salvage File: Date: B-419940.3; B-419940.4 December 27, 2021 John M. Manfredonia, Esq., Manfredonia Law Offices, LLC, for the protester. Gilbert E. Teal, II, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that solicitation is unclear and fails to provide sufficient information for offerors to compete on a common basis is denied; to the extent protest alleges that the solicitation conflicts with the Service Contract Act, it is the Department of Labor, and not our Office, that is statutorily charged with interpreting and administering the Service Contract Act. DECISION Shamrock Marine Towing & Salvage of Ocean City, New Jersey, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ)1 No. 70Z08421 QBB1 09300, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for services to support its aviation training program. The protester argues that the solicitation is unclear, prevents offerors from competing on an equal basis, and conflicts with the Service Contract Act. We deny the protest. 1 Although the solicitation was termed an RFQ, various parts of the record and the parties' filings refer to it as a request for proposals to which offerors submitted offers or proposals. See, e.g., Agency Report (AR), Tab E, System for Award Management Posting at 4. For ease of reference, we refer to the RFQ herein as the solicitation and to offerors who submitted proposals.

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