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B-298772.2 1 (2007-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaubq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Freedom Lift Corporation File: B-298772.2 Date: January 25, 2007 Huey P. Cotton, Esq., Cozen O'Connor, for the protester. Scott M. Heimberg, Esq., Thomas P. McLish, Esq., Andrea T. Vavonese, Esq., and Lauren R. Bates, Esq., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, for Bruno Independent Living Aids, Inc., an intervenor. Maura C. Brown, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Contracting officer did not act inconsistently in selecting lower-rated, lower-priced item for award under one line item and higher-rated, higher-priced item for award under another where price/technical trade-off considerations pertaining to the two line items were distinct. 2. Under solicitation for wheelchair/scooter lifts to be installed in motor vehicles used by mobility-impaired veterans, protest that specification requiring that lifts be capable of lifting 350 pounds should be interpreted as requiring that lifts be capable of lifting 350 pounds on majority of vehicles owned by mobility-impaired veterans is denied where solicitation contained no language indicating that compliance with specification was required in a majority--or in any specific percentage--of vehicles. DECISION Freedom Lift Corporation protests the award of line items 2, 5, and 7 to Bruno Independent Living Aids, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 797-NC-05-0009, issued by the National Acquisition Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for wheelchair lifts and carriers, and scooter lifts.' The protester contends that the 1 While Freedom Lift protested the award of line item 8 in addition to the above items in an agency-level protest that it pursued prior to protesting to our Office, we did not consider its protest to our Office to raise an objection to the award of item 8. The agency also interpreted the protest as failing to raise an objection to the award of (continued...)

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