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B-402123.4,B-402123.6 1 (2010-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoqn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Environmental Quality Management, Inc. File: B-402123.4; B-402123.6 Date: August 31, 2010 Brian W. Craver, Esq., and Stacey A. Mescall, Esq., Person & Craver LLP, for the protester. Russ Gulledge, for Environmental Restoration, LLC, an intervenor. Avital G. Zemel, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly provided awardees--but not protester--competitively useful information during ongoing acquisition is denied, where awardees were provided appropriate information during initial, pre-award debriefing (after their initial exclusion from the competitive range), and subsequently (after awardees' readmission into competitive range), agency conducted appropriate discussions tailored to each firm's proposal. DECISION Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (EQ), of Cincinnati, Ohio, protests the award of contracts to Environmental Restoration, LLC (ER), of St. Louis, Missouri, and Kemron Environmental Services, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. PR-R2-08-10085, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for emergency rapid response services. EQ asserts that the awardees obtained an unfair competitive advantage through information furnished to them during pre-award debriefings and discussions. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplated the award of three contracts, including two to be awarded to small businesses and one to be awarded to a service-disabled veteran-owned small business; this protest concerns the award of the small business contracts.

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