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B-290181 1 (2002-07-05)

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       Accountability Integrity * Reliability                       of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter of: Starfleet Marine Transportation, Inc.

         File:       B-290181

         Date:       July 5, 2002

         Deborah Y. Ho, Esq., David E. Frulla, Esq., and Stanley M. Brand, Esq., Brand &
         Frulla, for the protester.
         Gretchen L. Gaston, Esq., and William P. Horn, Esq., Birch, Horton, Bittner and
         Cherot, for Fort Sumter Tours, Inc., an intervenor.
         Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Pamela L. Barkin, Esq., Alton E. Woods, Esq., and
         Hugo Teuffel, 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 concerning the award of a concession contract is for consideration under
         General Accounting Office's bid protest function where the concession contract
         includes the delivery of property or services to the government.

         2. Decision by the National Park Service to cancel a concession contract prospectus
         in order to review agency requirements is unobjectionable where the action was
         reasonable and consistent with applicable regulations.
         DECISION

         Starfleet Marine Transportation, Inc. protests the decision by the Department of the
         Interior, National Park Service (NPS), to cancel the prospectus seeking proposals for
         the award of a concession contract for the operation of a ferryboat transportation
         service for Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina, and to extend the
         contract of the incumbent, Fort Sumter Tours, Inc. (FST). Starfleet principally
         alleges that the decision by the NPS to cancel the prospectus lacked a reasonable
         basis, and was the result of improper congressional interference.

         We deny the protest.

         Fort Sumter, the site at which the first shots of the American Civil War were fired, is
         an island fort located at the entrance of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. An

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