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B-404825.5,B-404825.6 1 (2011-10-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadohi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L G A O Comptroller General .in 7Accountabiity * 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 version has been approved Decision for . Matter of: EBA Ernest Bland Associates, P.C. File: B-404825.5; B-404825.6 Date: October 11, 2011 Gregory S. Jacobs, Esq., Andrew L. Hurst, Esq., and Joelle E.K. Laszlo, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for the protester. Shaquana L. Cooper, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's selection of firms with which to negotiate contracts for architect/engineering services is sustained where agency's final selections were based solely on results of oral interviews and did not consider specific evaluation factors established by terms of solicitation. DECISION EBA Ernest Bland Associates, P.C., of Silver Spring, Maryland, protests the failure of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to select it as one of the firms with which to negotiate a contract for architect/engineering (A/E) services for the eastern region of the United States under solicitation No. VA-101-10-RP-0063. The protester argues that the agency's selection process was flawed. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND This procurement was conducted pursuant to the Brooks Act, 40 U.S.C. § 1101 et sea. (2006) and its implementing regulations, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 36.6. In accordance with these regulations, on March 17, 2010, the VA posted a solicitation on the Federal Business Opportunities website inviting interested small

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