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B-411268 1 (2015-06-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrfy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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: RTI International File: B-411268 Date: June 26, 2015 Robert Nichols, Esq., Nooree Lee, Esq., and Z. Lily Rudy, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for the protester. Shaun R. Trudeau, Esq., and Kenneth R. Pakula, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation on the basis that the sample filters furnished by the agency for performance testing were defective is denied where the government-furnished sample filters were appropriate for the performance testing anticipated by the solicitation. 2. Protest asserting that the agency relied upon an unstated evaluation criterion by failing to disclose material information regarding the archiving and storage of government-furnished sample filters is denied where the agency's process was reasonable and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION RTI International, of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-NC-13-00020, which was issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for filter handling and analytical support services in support of air quality monitoring. The protester's proposal was disqualified for failing to achieve a passing score on a pre-award performance testing analysis. RTI argues that the agency's technical evaluation was flawed because EPA unreasonably provided offerors with unreliable sample filters for performance testing, or, alternatively, failed to apprise offerors of material information regarding the archiving and storage of the sample filters. We deny the protest.

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