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B-293945.2 1 (2004-06-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczjm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General . . Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States 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: Philips Medical Systems North America Company File: B-293945.2 Date: June 17, 2004 Donna L. Yesner, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge, for the protester. Maura C. Brown, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably rejected protester's proposal for lack of a validation study where solicitation required that offers of other than one of several specified models of blood pressure monitor be accompanied by a validation study, and protester offered one of the listed models modified to include a radio for wireless transmission of results; agency reasonably determined that the modification changed the item sufficiently that the exception from the validation study requirement did not apply. DECISION Philips Medical Systems North America Company protests the rejection of the offer it submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. 797-NC-04-0001, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for home telehealth equipment. We deny the protest. The solicitation requested proposals for, among other things, digital electronic blood pressure monitors, and provided that, For DIGITAL ELECTRONIC blood pressure monitors THAT ARE DESIGNED FOR HOME USE, offerors must provide a validation study of the accuracy of the unit that has been published in a peer reviewed professional journal, unless one of several specified monitor models, including the A&D UA-767V, were offered. RFP at 23. The solicitation required the offered monitor to be capable of transmitting results to the applicable medical site by wired or wireless means. Philips offered Philips Telemonitoring Blood Pressure Monitor (for home use) model number M3815A, which its proposal stated was based on the A&D UA-767V and outfitted with a radio. VA rejected the proposal on the basis that, by virtue of the

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