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B-284745 1 (2000-05-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalbj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Ocean Technical Services, Inc. File: B-284745 Date: May 22, 2000 Esteban Fernandez for the protester. Ric hard Wilkinson for Americ an Shipyard, an interveno r. Richard V. Gonzales, Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Jeanne W. Isrin, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In procurement for vessel repairs, agency reasonably excluded mission-related mileage from distance factor added to bids for evaluation purposes (to reflect the agency's cost of navigating the vessel to each bidder's shipyard) and instead calculated distance based on the shortest route consistent with the vessel's physical capabilities. DECISION Ocean Technical Services, Inc. (Otech) protests the proposed award of a contract to American Shipyard under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DTCG80-00-B-3FC159, issued by the Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard (USCG), for the drydock and repair of USCG cutter Attu. We deny the protest. The IFB contemplated award of a fixed-price contract, to be performed at the contractor's shipyard. IFB §§ F.1(b), L.5. Award was to be made to the low responsive, responsible bidder. IFB § M.2(a). The low bid was to be determined by adding to the bids five foreseeable cost factors to be incurred by the USCG as a result of having the work performed at the contractor's shipyard, rather than the home pier; these factors would vary depending on the location of the contractor's shipyard. IFB §§ M.1(b), M.3. The protest concerns the calculation of one of these foreseeable cost factors, the distance factor--$16.90 per nautical mile--which reflected the cost of navigating the vessel from its home pier to the contractor's

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