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B-414109 1 (2017-02-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtcz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Marine Design Dynamics, Inc. File: B-414109 Date: February 16, 2017 Bradford P. Johnson, Esq., Johnson Law Group International, PLLC, for the protester. C. Peter Dungan, Esq., Christine Reynolds, Esq., and Thomas L. McGovern III, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for Metro Machine Corporation d/b/a General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk, an intervenor. Katherine A. Andrias, Esq., Susan S. Grooms, Esq., and Rhonda L. Russ, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's conduct of discussions and evaluation in a lowest- priced, technically acceptable procurement is denied where the record provides no basis on which to conclude that discussions were not meaningful and where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Marine Design Dynamics, Inc. (Marine), of Washington, DC, protests the rejection of its proposal under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-16-R-2212, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, for a post shakedown availability' of United States Naval Ship (USNS) Lewis B. Puller (Puller), an expeditionary mobile base vessel. Marine challenges the agency's conduct of discussions and the evaluation of its technical proposal. 1 The term post shakedown availability refers to repairs and modifications to a newly constructed ship that are found to be necessary following delivery of the ship to the Navy and a brief period of operation at sea. See National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., B-250305.2, Mar. 23, 1993, 93-1 CPD T 260 at 2 n. 1.

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