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B-285939 1 (2000-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalev0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Specialty Diving, Inc. File: B-285939 Date: October 16, 2000 Deborah Wallace for the protester. Andrew C. Saunders, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency decision to continue to procure underwater hull cleaning and surveying services as an integrated package is reasonable and legally unobjectionable where the agency determines that this approach--providing cleaning and surveying services in tandem--is necessary in order to accurately assess a hulls underwater condition and to minimize the disruption to a vessel's ability to be deployed. DECISION Specialty Diving, Inc. (SDI) protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-00-R-4091, issued by the Department of the Navy for worldwide hull cleaning and related services, including underwater hull surveys, of Navy, Coast Guard, Army, and Military Sealift Command ships and craft. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on an unrestricted basis on May 18, 2000, contemplates the award of an indefinite-quantity, fixed-priced contract for the base period and four 1-year option periods.' RFP at 32, 84. 'The agency will award either one worldwide contract or two contracts--one for the East Coast and related areas (Zone A--Atlantic waters--inland waters along the East Coast of the United States, the entire North and South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, European Coast, Mediterranean Sea, and Arabian Gulf), and one for the West Coast and related areas (Zone B--Pacific and Indian waters--inland waters along the (continued...)

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