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B-257047.2 1 (1995-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptabyk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Sippican, Inc. File: B-257047.2 Date: November 13, 1995 Leon J. Glazerman, Esq., and Michael J. Lacek, Esq., Palmer & Dodge, for the protester. Robert G. Fryling, Esq., and Anthony 0. Boswell, Esq., Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley, for Sechan Electronics, Inc., an interested party. Christine A. Blazina, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly exercised a contract option is denied where the protester has not shown that the agency failed to follow applicable regulations or that the determination to exercise the option was unreasonable. DECISION Sippican, Inc. protests the exercise of the third option year under contract No. N00024-94-C-6153, which was awarded to Sechan Electronics, Inc., by the Department of the Navy. Sippican contends that the agency's determination to exercise the option was made without complying with applicable regulations. We deny the protest. On April 8, 1994, the Navy awarded a contract for a base year plus 3 option years to Sechan, under solicitation No. N00024-93-R-6126, to produce EMATTS (expendable anti-submarine warfare sonar training targets). The first year option was exercised concurrently with the award of the base year contract. The second year option was exercised in March 1995. The third year option, the subject of the current protest, was exercised on June 28, 1995. Sippican contends that the Navy improperly exercised the most recent option without making a reasonable determination that the option was the most advantageous method of fulfilling the government's needs, as required by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 17.207. Sippican, the incumbent contractor, bases its protest principally upon the fact that the firm sent several communications to the agency after Sippican lost the base contract competition to Sechan in 1994, stating that Sippican believed recompetition for the contract's option requirements 7511113

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