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B-293047.4 1 (2004-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapjm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Hyperbaric Technologies, Inc. File: B-293047.4 Date: March 29, 2004 Simon E. Dance, Esq., Jeffrey S. Newman, Esq., and Heather M. Trew, Esq., Foley & Lardner, for the protester. William A. Roberts, III, Esq., Timothy W. Staley, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Wiley Rein & Fielding, for PCCI, Inc., an intervenor. Dennis M. Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's contention that agency improperly evaluated its proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency evaluated proposal in accordance with the criteria announced in the solicitation and the record reasonably supports the evaluators' judgment. 2. Protest of agency's price/technical tradeoff decision is denied where the solicitation stated that technical capability was more important than price and the source selection official reasonably found, with articulated reasons, that the awardee's technical strengths outweighed the protester's slightly lower price advantage. DECISION Hyperbaric Technologies, Inc. (HTI) protests the award of a contract to PCCI, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 797-FDF3-03-0002, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to upgrade and modernize multiplace hyperbaric chambers, related equipment and systems located at the Hyperbaric Medicine Division, United States Air Force (USAF) School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks City-Base in Texas. HTI challenges the agency's evaluation and source selection decision. We deny the protest. The Hyperbaric Medicine Division at Brooks City-Base is a medical treatment facility which has two cylindrical multiplace hyperbaric chambers that can accommodate

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