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B-292053 1 (2003-05-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyia0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 7=Accountability * Integrity * Reliability Decision Matter of: Specialty Marine, Inc. File: B-292053 Date: May 19, 2003 Robert E. Korroch, Esq., Williams Mullen Clark & Dobbins, for the protester. Scott Garner, Esq., Military Sealift Command, and Kenneth Dobbs, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly rejected protester's quotation based on protester's failure to hold an Agreement for Boat Repair (ABR), where presolicitation synopsis put potential vendors on notice that ABR was a precondition to receiving award. DECISION Specialty Marine, Inc. protests the award of a contract to AEPCO under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N2105130275001, issued by the Military Sealift Command (MSC), Department of the Navy, for pre-deployment maintenance and repair of the USNS MOHAWK. Specialty, a small business, principally argues that MSC's rejection of its quotation amounted to a finding of nonresponsibility that the agency improperly failed to refer to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for review under its certificate of competency (COC) procedures. We deny the protest. The agency synopsized the requirement at the Governmentwide Point of Entry on the Internet on January 29, 2003. The synopsis specified that the requirement was open only to holders of an Agreement for Boat Repair (ABR),' and provided two 1 MSC maintains a qualification program under which ship repair contractors enter into advanced agreements that establish that the contractor has a specified level of ship repair capability and contains certain clauses and conditions applicable to contracts issued under the agreements. Agency Report at 5. There are two types of (continued...)

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