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B-294597 1 (2004-11-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapoz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: The Mangi Environmental Group, Inc. File: B-294597 Date: November 29, 2004 James I. Mangi for the protester. Samar A. Shams, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly rejected protester's quotation for environmental assessment where solicitation required a fixed price for completion of the tasks specified, but protester submitted its quotation on a fixed-price, level-of-effort basis, permitting it to accept a lower degree of risk than required by the solicitation and accepted by the other vendors. DECISION The Mangi Environmental Group, Inc. protests the rejection of its quotation, and the subsequent issuance of a purchase order to The Shipley Group, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FSA-R-33-04DC, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency (FSA), for a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) for the Confederate Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. Mangi argues that the agency improperly rejected its quotation. We deny the protest. The RFQ, posted on the General Services Administration's (GSA) E-Buy website on August 12, 2004, included a statement of work (SOW) that listed six tasks/deliverables, including: (1) develop and submit a management plan, (2) conduct scoping, (3) acquire data, analyze impacts and prepare preliminary draft PEA, (4) consult with FSA and Yakama Nation, (5) consult further, obtain and respond to public comments, refine draft PEA, and (6) prepare and submit final PEA. RFQ at 3. On August 13, the agency posted an amendment specifying that vendors

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