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B-297225 1 (2005-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqzo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Information Ventures, Inc. File: B-297225 Date: December 1, 2005 Bruce H. Kleinstein for the protester. Margaret H. Whittaker for ToxServices LLC, an intervenor. Davis Young, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where record shows that agency overstated its needs by requiring vendors to submit multiple examples of toxicology reports because agency report only justifies need to review one sample report, protest is nonetheless denied where protester has failed to show that it could have met requirement for even one sample report, and thus the overstated requirement did not result in competitive prejudice to the protester. DECISION Information Ventures, Inc. (IVI), a small business, protests the terms of the synopsis and request for quotations issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, for toxicology research and support services for the Navy Environmental Health Center (NEHC) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N00189-05-T-0534. IVI objects that the synopsis was defective, that the RFQ overstated the Navy's needs by requiring vendors to submit nine sample toxicology reports for evaluation, and that the RFQ improperly classified the required services as a commercial item. We deny the protest. The Navy issued the RFQ on September 7, 2005. The RFQ sought quotations to provide toxicology services for a base period and 4 additional years on a fixed-price

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