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B-401693,B-401693.2 1 (2009-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbae0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL AL G A O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Family Entertainment Services, Inc. File: B-401693; B-401693.2 Date: October 20, 2009 Michael Bornstein, Esq., Bornstein Law Offices, Inc., for the protester. Michael Twine, for G2 Engineering and Management, Inc., an intervenor. Laura L. Hoffman, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation for facilities support services should have been set aside for historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone) businesses is denied, where agency reasonably determined from market research, past procurement history, consultation with a contracting officer at a similar site, and consultation with the Small Business Administration that there was not a reasonable likelihood that two or more responsible HUBZone business offerors would submit proposals at a fair and reasonable price. DECISION Family Entertainment Services, Inc. (FESI), of Jackson, Ohio, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-SOL-0000530, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for facilities support services for the environmental clean-up activities at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, a site with Category 2 nuclear facilities. FESI contends that the RFP should have been set aside for a competition limited to Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 4, 2009, DOE issued a solicitation seeking facilities support services to support current and future decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) work at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The D&D work was to include maintaining

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