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B-405232,B-405232.2,B-405232.3 1 (2011-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadohf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A 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. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: F&S Environmental, LLC File: B-405232; B-405232.2; B-405232.3 Date: September 22, 2011 James J. McCullough, Esq., and Brian M. Stanford, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for the protester. Mike McCabe, Esq., and Joshua Stanton, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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 that agency misevaluated protester's proposal to provide support services for temporary housing units is denied where solicitation required offerors to assemble staff and resources to perform the required services within 48 hours after contract award, and the agency reasonably concluded that protester's proposal contemplated contract performance phase-in to occur 72 hours or more after award. DECISION F&S Environmental, LLC, of East Brewton, Alabama, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range, and the subsequent award of a contract to JESCO Company, of Gulf Shores, Alabama, by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSFE04-1 1 -R-2045 to provide maintenance and other support services for FEMA's temporary housing units (THU) being used by persons displaced by severe weather in Alabama on April 28, 2011. F&S argues that its proposal was unreasonably evaluated, was improperly excluded from the competitive range, and that the contract award was improperly made to an ineligible firm. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND FEMA issued the RFP on June 16, 2011 as a commercial item solicitation, seeking proposals to perform maintenance and other support services for approximately

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