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B-408210 1 (2013-06-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadppf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General cc A ;tabillty itgity , Reiiabikty of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Great Lakes Towing Company dba Great Lakes Shipyard File: B-408210 Date: June 26, 2013 Joseph P. Starck, Jr., for the protester. Thomas Connor, Shipbuilders of Wisconsin, Inc. dba Burger Boat Company, for the intervenor. Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., and Russell Husen, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly used unstated evaluation criterion to evaluate proposals is denied where the criterion at issue was logically related to evaluation factor set forth in the solicitation. 2. Protest that agency improperly considered qualitative differences between proposals in making its source selection decision is denied where agency reasonably considered that proposals with the same adjectival ratings are not necessarily of equal quality and looked behind those ratings. 3. Protest challenging agency's failure to consider information concerning protester's experience that was not set forth in the proposal is denied; offerors bear the responsibility to include such information in their proposals and agency is not obligated to consider matters not referenced therein. DECISION Great Lakes Shipyard (GLS) protests the decision by the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to award a contract to Burger Boat Company under request for proposals (RFP) No. G1 3PS001 15 for the detail design, construction and commissioning of the Research Vessel (R/V) Grayling. GLS challenges its technical evaluation as well as the technical evaluation of Burger. GLS also challenges the agency's best value award decision.

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