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B-406233 1 (2012-03-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadovf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ,!7 = 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 D e c is io n [ roved for public.release.--- ............................... Matter of: EcoAnalysts, Inc. File: B-406233; B-406233.2; B-406233.3 Date: March 19, 2012 Holly A. Roth, Esq., Michael Bhargava, Esq., and Diana Kwok, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, for the protester. Joseph J. Petrillo, Esq., and Karen D. Powell, Esq., Petrillo & Powell, P.L.L.C., for EnviroScience, Inc., the intervenor. Jeffrey M. Herrema, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Sam Q. Le, 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 Where protester's proposal, on its face, indicated that it would not comply with subcontracting limitation included in the solicitation, which required that at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel be expended for employees of the offeror, the agency properly rejected the proposal as unacceptable. DECISION EcoAnalysts, Inc., of Moscow, Idaho, protests the rejection of its proposal and the award of contracts to EnviroScience, Inc., of Stow, Ohio, and PG Environmental, LLC, of Herndon, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-CI-1 1-0023, issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for technical support services. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on May 31, 2011 as a total small business set-aside, sought to procure technical support services to support the EPA Office of Water on National Aquatic Resource Surveys. These services include research and planning, field sampling-related activities, sampling logistics, laboratory analyses, analytical techniques and modeling, and reporting. The solicitation contemplated the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) task order contracts. Task

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