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B-310708,B-310708.2 1 (2008-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaiy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * 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. Decision Matter of: T. F. Boyle Transportation, Inc. File: B-310708; B-310708.2 Date: January 29, 2008 Jonathan T. Cain, Esq., and Helen Guyton, Esq., Mintz Levin, for the protester. H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Young H. Cho, Esq., and Renee Holland, Esq., Department of Energy; and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Provision in solicitation that required offeror to demonstrate its capability of passing a Department of Energy Office of Transportation Motor Carrier Evaluation Program audit did not constitute a definitive responsibility criterion because it does not contain specific and objective standards. 2. Protest challenging affirmative responsibility determination is denied where the protester's allegations do not establish that the contracting officer failed to consider available relevant information. DECISION T. F. Boyle Transportation, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Visionary Solutions, LLC under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP30-06EW20001, issued by the United States Department of Energy (DOE), for transportation of transuranic (TRU) waste. Boyle contends that Visionary was improperly determined to be a responsible contractor. We deny the protest. The DOE operates a Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, which is an underground repository for radioactive waste generated from the research and production of nuclear weapons at DOE sites. The RFP, issued January 6, 2006, sought proposals to provide the facilities, personnel, equipment, and services to transport TRU waste from various DOE sites to the WIPP across designated highway routes. It contemplated the award of two indefinite-delivery

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