Alpha Marine Services, LLC.

B-292511.5 March 22, 2004

[Note: This same information appears under multiple IDs: B-292511.5, B-292511.4

Protest:

Alpha Marine Services, LLC protests the Department of the Navy's award of a contract to Ocean Services, LLC, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00033-02-R-2009, for the "time charter" of a vessel to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) hydrographic survey program.Alpha asserts that the vessel proposed by Ocean does not meet the RFP's requirement that the vessel be capable of a minimum transit speed of 12 knots, and that the selection of Ocean's proposal for award was inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation.

Decision:

We deny the protest

Decision Summary:

Where proposal did not take exception to requirement in solicitation for the services of an oceanographic research vessel that the vessel be capable of a minimum transit speed of 12 knots, but rather specifically provided that the proposed vessel would comply, and there was no significant countervailing evidence reasonably known to the agency evaluators that should have created doubt whether the offeror would comply with the requirement, the proposal was reasonably evaluated by the agency as acceptable in this regard.