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B-278521 1 (1998-02-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Braswell Services Group, Inc. File: B-278521 Date: February 9, 1998 William A. Scott, Esq., Pedersen & Scott, for the protester. Sharon Hershkowitz, Esq., Naval Sea Systems Command, for the agency. Sylvia Schatz, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation for ship repair services is defective for failing to specify the location of required work and interferences that must be moved in order to perform the work, and that offers therefore cannot be prepared intelligently and on an equal basis, is denied where (1) nature of emergent repairs and variable nature of shipboard conditions make it impossible to specify location of repairs in advance; (2) agency provided offerors with ship plans, drawings, manuals, and provided 1-1/2 months for a shipboard inspection; and (3) alternative of structuring contract to include pool of hours to cover unanticipated work which may be necessary to perform the required work would shift all risk of increased cost during contract performance to agency; agency is permitted, instead, to structure solicitation to require offerors to develop prices taking contingencies into account. DECISION Braswell Services Group, Inc. protests the terms of Department of the Navy's request for proposals (RFP) No. N62670-97-R-0007, for ship repair work of an emergent, time-critical nature on FFG-7 (frigate) class vessels homeported at the Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville, Florida. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplates the award of a fixed-price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for a base year, with four 1-year options, to the responsive, responsible offeror with the lowest evaluated price for the base and option years. The RFP's pricing schedule contains numerous contract line item numbers (CLIN) and subline item numbers (subCLIN) that require submission of unit and extended prices. An enclosure to the RFP set forth the exact work required under each

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