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B-286460 1 (2001-01-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptammf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting 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. Decision Matter of: ABIC Ltd. File: B-286460 Date: January 12, 2001 Kurt M. Rylander, Esq., for the protester. Lafayette N. Johnson, Esq., and Paul D. Metrey, Esq., Federal Emergency Management Agency, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of exclusion of protester's proposal from the competitive range is denied where the evaluation was conducted in accordance with the evaluation criteria announced in the solicitation, and the record supports the evaluators' conclusions and provides no evidence of bias. DECISION ABIC, Ltd., doing business as femaINSPECTOR.com, protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. EMW-2000-RP-0018, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for inspection services in disaster areas. ABIC contends that its proposal was improperly eliminated based on an unreasonable, biased evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND Pursuant to the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. § 5221 et sea. (1994), FEMA is authorized to provide assistance to applicants for grants in presidentially declared disasters and emergencies. Once a disaster is declared, affected persons are instructed to apply for assistance. Their applications are then forwarded to contractor inspectors who collect information on disaster-related expenses, which will enable the agency to determine the type and amount of disaster assistance to which applicants are entitled. The RFP contemplated the award of two or more indefinite-quantity, fixed-price contracts, for a 1-year base period, with 4 option years. Offerors were required to submit a limited written technical

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