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B-285910 1 (2000-09-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptales0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: STG, Inc. File: B-285910 Date: September 20, 2000 Kenneth J. Ingram, Esq., and Michael A. Stover, Esq., Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, for the protester. Kenneth A. Redden, Esq., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and John W. Klein, Esq., and Audrey H. Liebross, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Proposal submitted prior to the issue date of a request for proposals (RFP) is an offer in response to the RFP that the contracting agency must consider where the agency provided the offeror with prior written notice that it would do so. DECISION STG, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal under request for proposals (RFP) No. PR-HQ-00-10150, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for information management services for EPA's libraries, public information centers and records centers.! We sustain the protest. On December 3, 1999, EPA published notice in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) of the agency's requirement for these services and its intent to issue the RFP in mid-December. Agency Report, Tab 1, CBD Notice. The CBD notice stated that EPA contemplated using the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) set-aside program and making two awards, one using the section 8(a) competitive process and the other restricted to Indian Tribal Concerns/Alaskan Native Corporations. Id. 'This protest was decided under the express option provisions of our Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.10 (2000).

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