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B-422234.4 Jun 13, 2024 1 (2024-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqmr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Sea Box, Inc. File: B-422234.4 Date: June 13, 2024 Robert A. Farber, Esq., for the protester. Ron Seignious, Intrepid Eagle Logistics, Inc., for the intervenor. Samantha L. Meyer, Esq., and Andrew T. McGuire, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the awardee's eligibility for award due to a lapse in its System for Award Management registration is dismissed where the protester cannot demonstrate that it is an interested party to raise this ground of protest. DECISION Sea Box, Inc., a small business located in East Riverton, New Jersey, protests the award of a contract to Intrepid Eagle Logistics, Inc. (Intrepid), of Bethesda, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE8ED-23-R-0016, which was issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for a quantity of cargo containers. The protester contends that Intrepid was ineligible for award due to a lapse in its System for Award Management (SAM) registration. We dismiss the protest on the basis that the protester is not an interested party. The RFP anticipated award of a single, fixed-price definite-delivery contract for a quantity of cargo containers, identified as Lot 2. Req. for Dismissal, exh. 1, RFP at 7. The RFP provided for award to the offeror whose proposal was most advantageous to the government, considering the following three evaluation factors: technical capability, past performance, and price; and when combined, the non-price factors were approximately equal to price. Id. at 60. In response to the RFP, DLA received seven proposals, three of which, including Sea Box's and Intrepid's proposals, were included in the competitive range. Id. As relevant here, the record shows that all three proposals received a rating of acceptable under the technical capability factor and the intervening

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