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B-416822 1 (2018-12-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvji0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: South Bay Sand Blasting and Tank Cleaning, Inc. File: B-416822 Date: December 20, 2018 Clinton L. Hubbard, Esq., Law Offices of Clinton D. Hubbard, for the protester. Lisa N. Foster, Esq., and David J. Kelly, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of protester's proposal under the technical capabilities factor is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION South Bay Sand Blasting and Tank Cleaning, Inc., a small business of National City, California, protests the exclusion of its proposal from competition by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N4523A1 8R0826 for preservation services for aircraft carriers, submarines, and other surface vessels. South Bay alleges that the agency failed to properly evaluate its proposal under the technical capabilities factor of the RFP.1 We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On May 8, 2017, the agency awarded two 5-year multiple-award, fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for preservation services with a $260.1 million maximum ordering ceiling. Agency Report (AR), Contracting Officer's Statement /Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 2. The multiple-award contracts 1 Our Office did not issue a protective order in connection with this protest. Accordingly, our discussion of some aspects of the evaluation is necessarily general in nature.

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