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B-405888 1 (2012-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadons0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: LASEOD Group, LLC File: B-405888 Date: January 10, 2012 Michael J. Gardner, Esq., and George G. Booker Jr., Esq., Troutman Sanders LLP, for the protester. J. Hatcher Graham, Esq., for VR Habilis, LLC, an intervenor. LTC Patrick L. Vergona, Department of the Army, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly waived a solicitation requirement (that offerors provide past performance information for at least three prior contracts) is denied where the protester was not competitively prejudiced by the waiver and the agency's selection of the awardee's quotation as the most advantageous to the government, based on its higher-rated past performance, was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation factors. DECISION LASEOD Group, LLC, of Suwanee, Georgia, protests the award of a contract to VR Habilis, LLC, (VRH) of Knoxville, Tennessee, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W91 1 SA-1 1 -T-0245 issued by the Department of the Army for unexploded ordnance clearance at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, which was set aside for small businesses and issued as a simplified acquisition under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 13.5, provided for the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for surface, subsurface, and underwater clearance of unexploded ordnance (UXO). RFQ, Amend. 1, at 2-3; Statement of Work (SOW) at 19. The SOW requires the vendor to dispose of UXO and other hazardous materials in accordance with applicable

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