--- title: Grand Teton Guide Company Continues Efforts To Have NPS’s Illegal Award of Concession Contract To Its Preferred Concessioners Overturned description: A small outfitter/guide company located outside Grand Teton National Park is continuing with its efforts to have an illegal award of two NPS concession contracts overturned.  The company, Eco Tour Adventures, Inc., previously prevailed in demonstrating that the award of the contracts by NPS to its two incumbent concessioners was in violation of the law.  […] --- [Skip to main content](https://www.gardenlawfirm.com/from-the-garden/teton-guide-company-continues-efforts-to-have-npss-illegal-award-of-concession-contract-to-its-preferred-concessioners-overturned#main) [![The Garden Law Firm P.C. Logo](https://www.gardenlawfirm.com/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Garden%20Law%20Firm%20P.C.%20Logo.jpg?width=325&height=37&name=The%20Garden%20Law%20Firm%20P.C.%20Logo.jpg) ![The Garden Law Firm P.C. 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Eco Tour also demonstrated that, when NPS awarded the two contracts to its preferred incumbents, it failed to require those companies to match many parts of its better proposal.  These elements included reduced fuel emissions by its vehicles.  NPS took the position that reduced fuel emissions was not a material part of the concession operations and thus it would not require its preferred incumbents to match this better aspect of Eco Tour’s proposal. 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