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B-422956,B-422956.2 Oct 22, 2024 1 (2024-10-22)

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G     A     O       U.S. GOVERNMENT   ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                   Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                              of the United States


Decision
                                                    DOCUMENT   FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Matter of:   Pacific Shipyards International, LLC
                                                  The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                                  a GAO Protective Order. This version has been
File:     B-422956; B-422956.2
                                                  approved for public release.

Date:     October 22,   2024

Michael D. Maloney, Esq., and Anthony H. Anikeeff, Esq., Williams Mullen, for the
protester.
David B. Dixon, Esq., and Aleksey R. Dabbs, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
LLP, for Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc.; and James. A Kelley, Esq., James A. Kelley &
Associates, for Ohana Marine Services JV1, LLC, the intervenors.
Rhonda  L. Russ, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging terms of solicitation for award of multiple indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity contracts brought after award is dismissed where the protester is an
awardee  and the protest is untimely.
DECISION

Pacific Shipyards International, LLC (PSI), a small business of Honolulu, Hawaii,
protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-24-R-4437, issued by the
Department  of the Navy for ship repair services. The protester challenges several of
the RFP's terms as latently ambiguous.

We  dismiss the protest.

BACKGROUND

On  November  1, 2023, using the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
part 15, the Navy issued the solicitation seeking proposals for the repair, maintenance
and modernization requirements of non-nuclear U.S. NAVY surface ships homeported
and visiting the Pearl Harbor, HI homeport. Req. for Dismissal encl. C, RFP at 1, 29,
125.1 The solicitation included two lots--lot 1 for critical ship repair and lot 2 for
non-critical ship repair. Id. at 125. Offerors were permitted to submit proposals for only


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