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B-402247.2 1 (2010-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbfs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: li AL A , G A O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * 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. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Environmental Quality Management, Inc. File: B-402247.2 Date: March 9, 2010 Brian W. Craver, Esq., Person & Craver LLP, for the protester. Marvin K. Gibbs, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency erred in not alerting protester to alleged error in protester's proposal is denied where the alleged error was material to the acceptability of the proposal and thus could be corrected only through discussions, and agency, as permitted under the solicitation, did not conduct discussions with any offerors. 2. Protest that agency's exchanges with offerors other than the protester constituted discussions is denied where no offeror was permitted to make any material revision to its proposal. DECISION Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (EQM) of Cincinnati, Ohio, protests the awards of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts to seven other firms by the Department of the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment (AFCEE) under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8903-09-R-8374, for environmental, construction, operations, and other services. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND AFCEE issued the solicitation on May 6, 2009, as a small business set-aside for environmental restoration and remediation; minor construction, demolition, and repairs; and operations and other services to be performed at Department of Defense locations throughout the world, but primarily in the continental United States. The solicitation contemplated the award of five to eight ID/IQ contracts, but reserved the

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