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B-271510 1 (1996-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeeu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Avondale Industries, Inc. File: B-271510 Date: July 15, 1996 Theodore M. Bailey, Esq., for the protester. Alan W. Mendelsohn, Esq., and Charles A. Johnson, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency conducted meaningful discussions regarding proposed noncompliance with a safe working area requirement in the solicitation through discussion questions which explicitly advised the protester of the agency's concern in this respect. 2. Agency evaluation of the protester's proposal and subsequent decision not to grant the protester a waiver of a safe working area requirement was unobjectionable where the waiver determination was entirely a matter of agency discretion and there were other offerors, including the awardee, that met the requirement. DECISION Avondale Industries, Inc. protests the Department of the Navy's award of a contract to Diversified Group, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62387-95-R-4007. The protester alleges that the Navy failed to conduct meaningful discussions and that its proposal was improperly evaluated. We deny the protest. 327715