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B-291978.2 1 (2003-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacykc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General - -Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: United Coatings File: B-291978.2 Date: July 7, 2003 James A. Kelley, Esq., and Lori Ann Lange, Esq., Bastianelli, Brown & Kelley, for the protester. James. L. Weiner, Esq., and Sherry Kinland Kaswell, 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 that agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's and awardee's quotes under a solicitation for tank preservation services is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation of the quotes was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, and the protester's contentions represent only its disagreement with the agency's evaluation. 2. Protest that the agency improperly failed to downgrade awardee's quote because of the intended use of several non-United States citizens, who would require a security waiver to perform work, is denied where the agency reasonably assessed the attendant risk. 3. Protest that agency's failure to take into account, as part of the price evaluation of revised quotes, additional payments made to the awardee under an interim purchase order is denied where the record fails to show that the protester was competitively prejudiced. DECISION United Coatings (UCC) protests the issuance of a purchase order to W-Mann Services (USA) LLC, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1435-04-03-PR-71323, issued by the Minerals Management Service (MMS), Department of the Interior, for preservation work of various fuel oil service tanks aboard the Navy aircraft carrier,

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