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B-414137.3 1 (2017-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadthq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: American Access, Inc. File: B-414137.3 Date: April 11,2017 Richard F. Busch II, Esq., Busch Law Firm, LLC, for the protester. Brian R. Reed, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest arguing that solicitation amendment and email transmitting the amendment created an ambiguity as to the date from which prices were requested to be extended is denied where the amendment is not susceptible to two reasonable interpretations and the record shows that the protester in fact acknowledged the amendment in a manner that reflected the amendment's intended meaning. DECISION American Access, Inc., of Bartlett, Tennessee, protests the terms of amendment 15 to request for proposals (RFP) No. VA240C-1 4-R-001 5, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for modular ramps. The protester argues that the amendment and email transmitting the amendment contain patent ambiguities as to the date from which prices were requested to be extended for a set period of time. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on October 9, 2015, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) parts 12 and 15 and set aside for small businesses, sought portable, modular ramps to be assembled at the homes of veterans who cannot navigate stairs, for three service area office (SAO) regions:1 SAO-East, SAO-West, and SAO-Central. RFP2 1 The management of the VA's healthcare facilities in the United States is organized into three large SAO regions and within each of the three regions facilities are (continued...)

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