Ship Repair Firm Can’t Protest Navy Contract Performance Report

Colonna’s Shipyard Inc. can’t raise a protest claiming it lost a ship maintenance contract to a competitor because the Navy allegedly improperly relied on an unfavorable contract performance assessment report involving a separate contract, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims said.

The challenge to the report’s accuracy isn’t within the court’s bid protest jurisdiction, Judge Patrica E. Campbell Smith said in a opinion released Tuesday.

The Federal Circuit has strongly discouraged challenging performance assessments through bid protests, the court said.

But Colonna’s Shipyard may proceed with its claim that Navy personnel acted in bad faith when they included incorrect and ...