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B-406087,B-406087.2 1 (2012-02-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadonw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decisionl a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Ocean Services, LLC File: B-406087; B-406087.2 Date: February 2, 2012 Wayne A. Keup, Esq., for the protester. Fred Kopatich, Esq., Ashley Powers, Esq., and Mark Langstein, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's proposal was reasonably excluded from the competitive range where the agency found that the proposal was technically unacceptable and would require major revisions to be made acceptable. DECISION Ocean Services, LLC, of Seattle, Washington, protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. QA1 33W-1 0-RP-0023, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for marine vessels for the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) to service weather buoys world-wide. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The NDBC is an agency within NOAA that provides meteorological and environmental monitoring data from buoys and other systems to NOAA. Among the Center's responsibilities is the operation and maintenance of the national data buoy network, a system of weather buoys of differing sizes and mooring configurations. The procurement at issue here will provide for the transportation and berthing of technicians and other personnel to perform scheduled maintenance and non- routine activities (that is, repairs of discrepancies) of the buoys. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, Statement of NDBC Operations Branch Chief, at 1-2. The RFP, issued as small business set-aside, provided for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for marine vessels to transport

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