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B-292100 1 (2003-06-11)

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         G    A     0Comptroller General
 -   -Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                       of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter  of:  American Analytical & Technical Services, Inc.

         File:        B-292100

         Date:        June 11, 2003

         Kesavalu M. Bagawandoss  for the protester.
         Kenneth R. Pakula, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency.
         Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Consistent with the terms in the invitation for bids, contracting agency properly
         calculated evaluated prices by adding ten percent to prices bid by all firms other
         than those of qualifying small disadvantaged business concerns.
         DECISION

         American  Analytical & Technical Services, Inc. (AATS) protests the failure of the
         Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to award it a contract under invitation for
         bids (IFB) No. PR-HQ-02-10708, for multi-media, multi-concentration, organic
         analytical (sample analysis) services. AATS alleges that the agency's evaluation of
         bidders' prices was improper.

         We  deny the protest.

         The IFB, issued on August 8, 2002, sought to procure laboratory testing services in
         support of EPA's investigatory and cleanup activities, primarily with regard to
         hazardous waste sites nationwide, under the Comprehensive Environmental
         Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. The solicitation contemplated
         the award of multiple indefinite-quantity contracts for a 1-year base period with two
         6-month option periods.

         The IFB informed bidders that the agency planned to conduct both a full and open
         competition, and a small business set-aside competition of up to 25 percent of the
         contract awards. IFB, § L. 10. Relevant to this protest, the solicitation stated that the

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