Petchem Incorporated

A firm protested a Military Sealift Command (MSC) contract award for a personnel transfer vessel (PTV), contending that the awardee should not have been eligible for award because its proposed PTV did not satisfy material solicitation requirements at the time of the award. GAO held that since the solicitation provided a 40-day post-award period for compliance, MSC reasonably selected the awardee's lower-priced, technically equal proposal for award. Accordingly, the protest was denied.