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B-280011.2 1 (1998-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahuh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Nick Chorak Mowing File: B-280011.2 Date: October 1, 1998 Sam Z. Gdanski, Esq., for the protester. Anthony G. Beyer, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency's decision to modify statement of work after receipt of initial quotations to reflect its actual needs is unobjectionable where offerors were given an equal opportunity to revise their quotes based on the reduced requirement. DECISION Nick Chorak Mowing protests the issuance of a purchase order to Bill Christopher Enterprises under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RT-98-00295, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for certain full-service landscape maintenance and management services. Chorak complains that the agency exhibited bias and conducted a price auction. 1 We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued under simplified acquisition procedures on March 26, 1998, sought quotes to provide full-service landscape maintenance and management at two locations of the National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory complex in Corvallis, Oregon. The types of groundskeeping activities included in the statement of work (SOW) were lawnmowing and thatch removal; tree and shrub pruning; debris removal; application of bark dust in landscaped areas; weed and insect pest control in lawn and landscaped areas; application of fertilizers and pesticides by a state of Oregon licensed pesticide applicator; and parking lot and sidewalk sweeping. RFQ SOW at 4. The RFQ contemplated the issuance of a 1-year, fixed-price purchase order to the vendor whose quotation represented the best 1Chorak also protested the agency's evaluation of the protester's past performance, which our Office previously denied in a separate decision.

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