B-292431: Aug 27, 2003

Gulf Copper Ship Repair, Inc. protests the award to Anteon Corp. by the Department of the Navy under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62678-03-R-0049 for ship maintenance and repair. Gulf challenges the acceptability of Anteon's proposal, the agency's methodology in evaluating past performance, and the source selection decision.We deny the protest...

B-292431: Aug 27, 2003

Agency's selection of proposal that failed to conform to a minimum water depth specification is an unobjectionable waiver of the solicitation requirement. Where deviation is negligible and does not result in prejudice to the protester. 2. Agency reasonably selected lower priced proposal from firm whose past performance was reasonably rated neutral instead of higher priced proposal of protester who...