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Great job to our team supporting our contract with the U.S. General Services Administration on assisting the client with conducting a year’s worth of environmental, health, and safety surveys in just six months! Due to limitations with COVID-19, the team was unable to conduct their surveys on their usual timeline and instead had to work on a more condensed schedule. This effort assisted the U.S. General Services Administration Region 4 in being the first of their regions to reach 100 percent completion.

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