March 17, 2014

SBA DENIES MAYWOOD APPEAL

By ExchangeMonitor

The Small Business Administration denied an appeal on Monday to its size standard challenge decision from July concerning the awarding of the Army Corps of Engineers’ FUSRAP Maywood clean up site to Cabrera Services. The SBA stated that Cabrera Services qualified as a small business. Cabrera Services President Kim Nelson said in an email to RW Monitor, “Cabrera is pleased that all challenges to the award have been settled and the original award decision has been upheld.” Nelson indicated that the company can continue where they left off in May by developing a response to the government’s initial task order.

The appeal, filed by Maywood Closure Company, LLC, made up of ARS International and Safety and Ecology Corp. and also including Environmental Chemical Corporation and The Louis Berger Group as team subcontractors; and TPMC-EnergySolutions Environmental Solutions 2009, LLC, made up of TerranearPMC and EnergySolutions, followed an unsuccessful Government Accountability Office protest by the same two companies. The two companies claimed that the awarding of the $450 million Maywood contract to Cabrera Services in May was a conflict of interest because an agency employee had a 10% ownership interest in Cabrera and that the agency employed a flawed evaluation. The GAO found that the employee had no role in the selection process after an investigation.

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