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B-282277.5 1 (2000-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakxq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: American Technical & Analytical Services, Inc. File: B-282277.5 Date: May 31, 2000 Robert J. Martinez, Esq., Williams & Jensen, for the protester. Jonathon S. Baker, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Bid that was previously rejected because the bidder was determined nonresponsible under an invitation for bids contemplating multiple awards may be revived, where the agency intends to make additional awards under the IFB, because responsibility is to be determined based on any information received by the agency up to the time award is proposed to be made. DECISION American Technical & Analytical Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Laucks Testing Laboratories, Inc. under invitation for bids (IFB) No. PR-HQ-98- 00031, issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for laboratory services. American contends that the EPA improperly allowed Laucks to revive its expired bid. We deny the protest. The IFB, issued July 22, 1998, was to procure laboratory services from multiple contractors under fixed-price, indefinite -quantity contracts for a 1-year base period with 2 option years. The laboratory services were for analyzing samples from hazardous waste sites to determine the presence and concentration of certain organic analytes in aqueous and nonaqueous samples. IFB § B.1. Among other things, the IFB required the analysis data to be furnished to the EPA on a computer disk, defined as an electronic data deliverable (EDD). IFB § C.2, exh. H. The IFB provided for award of up to 26 contracts to those bidders with the lowest prices who passed the qualification requirements set forth in the IFB. IFB § M.3. The

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