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B-421363.2 Nov 08, 2023 1 (2023-11-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaopmx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Texas Waste Company, LLC File: B-421363.2 Date: November 8, 2023 Laurence Schor, Esq., and Scott D. Boyle, Esq., Asmar, Schor & McKenna, PLLC, for the protester. Natica C. Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Uri R. Yoo, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency made an unreasonable source selection decision based on bias is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and the protester failed to provide convincing evidence of bad faith. DECISION Texas Waste Company, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of New Braunfels, Texas, protests the award of a contract to CLC Services, Inc., a SDVOSB of Leming, Texas, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C25722Q1173, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for regulated medical waste removal and disposal services. Texas Waste asserts that the VA's evaluation of past performance was improperly affected by a bias against Texas Waste. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on October 5, 2022, under the commercial item procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12 and the simplified acquisition procedures of FAR part 13. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 1, RFQ at 1, 72-73.1 1 Citations to the RFQ are to the conformed copy provided at exhibit 1 of the agency report. All page citations to the record are to the Adobe PDF page numbers.

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