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B-403545 1 (2010-11-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbrz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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. Decision Matter of: ProActive, LLC File: B-403545 Date: November 18, 2010 Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal and Ganister, for the protester. Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., and Christopher G. Burwell, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, P.C., for Alcazar Trades, Inc., an intervenor. Ruth Kowarski Cooke, Esq., and Mark J. Maxin, Esq., Nuclear Regulatory Commission, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where agency reasonably assigned weaknesses to the protester's proposal based on information required by the solicitation that the protester did not provide, and reached a reasonable source selection decision finding the awardee's and protester's proposals technically equal and selecting the awardee's proposal on the basis of its lower price. DECISION ProActive, LLC, of Waldorf, Maryland, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Alcazar Trades, Inc. (ATI), of San Antonio, Texas, by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 10-10-373 for custodial, waste removal, and pest control services at NRC buildings in Rockville, Maryland. ProActive argues that the NRC misevaluated the firm's proposal, and therefore the decision to award the contract to ATI was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The NRC issued the RFP in February 2010 as a set-aside for service-disabled veteran owned small business concerns (SDVOSBC). RFP at I-1. The RFP requested

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