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B-401448.5,B-401448.6 1 (2010-05-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbkm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL 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: Information Ventures, Inc. File: B-401448.5; B-401448.6 Date: May 13, 2010 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Jennifer S. Zucker, Esq., and Elizabeth M. Gill, Esq., Patton Boggs LLP, for Biotechnical Services, Incorporated, the intervenor. Michael I. Goulding, Esq., and Jonathan A. Baker, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, 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 Agency's determination that the protester's proposal was unacceptable was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation scheme. DECISION Information Ventures, Inc. (IVI) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to Biotechnical Services, Incorporated (BSI) of North Little Rock, Arkansas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIHES2008050, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, for technical report preparation services. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on July 15, 2008 as a small business set-aside, contemplated the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a 5-year base period with five 1-year options for technical report preparation services. The contractor was to serve as a resource for the preparation of two types of technical reports describing National Toxicology Program (NTP) studies of the toxicology and carcinogenicity of selected chemicals. The difference between the two types of peer-reviewed, book-style

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