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B-420789 Aug 26, 2022 1 (2022-08-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaonns0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 version has been Matter of: Old Harbor Solutions, LLC approved for public release. File: B-420789 Date: August 26, 2022 Christopher J. Slottee, Esq., Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C., for the protester. Kathleen R. Robertson, Esq., and Allen E. Sebastian, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to provide adequate level of effort information for offerors to prepare proposals is denied where the solicitation establishes a mandatory number of labor hours and provides sufficient level of information for offerors to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis. DECISION Old Harbor Solutions, LLC, a small business of Manassas, Virginia, protests the terms of task order request for proposals (RFP) No. N001 6422R3008, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) for business operations support services (BOSS). The protester contends that the solicitation does not provide sufficient information for offerors to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On April 13, 2022, using the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 16.5, the agency issued the solicitation to small business holders of the Navy's SeaPort Next Generation indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 3, RFP at 5, 16. The solicitation seeks proposals to perform various types of BOSS work that are delineated as separate contract line item numbers (CLIN).1 Id. 1 These identified services include: non-personal professional, technical, and management support services in the areas of strategy and planning, research and analysis, program/project analyst support, corporate business, financial management,

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