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B-402245,B-402245.2 1 (2010-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbez0001 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: EMMES Corporation File: B-402245; B-402245.2 Date: February 17, 2010 Brian A. Darst, Esq., Odin Feldman Pittleman PC, for the protester. Cheryl S. Mpande, Esq., National Institutes of Health; Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation for the award of a cost reimbursement contract for a data coordination center should be set aside for small business concerns is denied, where agency reasonably found, based upon market research and the publication of a sources sought notice, that the agency was not likely to receive proposals from at least two small businesses with sufficient experience to perform the overall requirement. DECISION The EMMES Corporation of Rockville, Maryland, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. NHLBI-HB- 11-02, issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, for the award of a cost reimbursement contract for a data coordination center. EMMES, a small business concern, argues that the solicitation should have been set aside exclusively for small business concerns. We deny the protest. NIH seeks a contractor to provide a data coordinating center (DCC) as part of the Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study -- III (REDS-III) program. The REDS-III program seeks to assure safe and effective blood banking and transfusion medicine practices through a comprehensive, multi-targeted strategy involving basic, translational, and clinical research to improve the benefits of

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