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B-406809 1 (2012-09-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpaf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General r Accountablity * 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 i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Triumvirate Environmental, Inc. File: B-406809 Date: September 5, 2012 Dustin Hecker, Esq., Posternak Blankstein & Lund, LLP, for the protester. Jeanne S. Morris, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's pricing as unbalanced and conducted a technical-price tradeoff without meaningfully considering the lower prices set forth in the protester's quotation. DECISION Triumvirate Environmental, Inc., of Somerville, Massachusetts, the incumbent contractor, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Clean Harbors Environmental Services, of Norwell, Massachusetts, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA-241-12-R-0306, for hazardous waste removal in veterans integrated service network area 1 (VISN 1). We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The VA issued the RFQ on March 27, 2012, for the purpose of establishing a BPA pursuant to the terms of a single vendor's General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract for hazardous waste removal services. The RFQ established a best value evaluation scheme considering price and two non-price factors (past performance and technical), and indicated that the non-price factors, when combined, are significantly more important than price. RFQ at 51. The technical factor included three subfactors--management approach, licenses and education, and emergency response--but the RFQ advised that quotations would not be rated at the subfactor level; rather, the technical subfactors would be

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