A firm protested a Department of the Navy combined contract award for waterborne hull cleaning and associated services, contending that the Navy failed to conduct the procurement in a manner that implemented the Navy's goal of making a split award for the two zones in order to develop multiple sources, and otherwise improperly implemented the evaluation and award determination in various respects...

DIGEST Agency evaluation of proposals and resulting determination to make a combined award are unobjectionable where they are reasonable and consistent with the solicitation evaluation and award criteria. Protest that agency was required to conduct procurement in a manner that would afford preference to a split award to different offerors for each of two zones being solicited is denied where solic...