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B-400367.2 1 (2008-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaql0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL .L A - GA O Comptroller General .Accountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Advant-EDGE Solutions, Inc. File: B-400367.2 Date: November 12, 2008 Donald J. Holland for the protester. Rebecca L. Tranthem, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where solicitation did not require offeror itself to possess specific licenses and permits, agency properly evaluated licenses and permits issued in name of awardee's subcontractor. 2. Evaluation of protester's proposal was unobjectionable where, due to weakness associated with sharps exchange program, agency reasonably evaluated proposal as satisfactory and, although it experienced difficulty in contacting protester's past performance references, reasonably evaluated past performance as low risk. DECISION Advant-EDGE Solutions, Inc. (AES) of North East, Maryland protests the award of a contract to NEIE Medical Waste Services, LLC (NEIE) of Portsmouth, Virginia under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA-248-07-RP-0094, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for biomedical waste services. AES challenges the agency's evaluation of the proposals. We deny the protest. The RFP, set aside for small disadvantaged veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB), sought proposals for all labor, equipment, containers, transportation and supervision required to pick-up, transport, incinerate and/or acceptably dispose of biomedical infectious waste, pharmaceutical and veterinary waste, chemotherapy waste, biological/pathological waste, contaminated waste, and VA sharps