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B-405138,B-405138.2,B-405138.3 1 (2011-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbxl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Sygnetics, Inc. File: B-405138, B-405138.2, B-405138.3 Date: August 22, 2011 Tony Tarkowski for the protester. Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., and Tricia C. Bell, Esq., Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, for the intervenor. Lynn T. Burleson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging evaluation of protester's past performance and the best value source selection is denied, where the record confirms the basis of the protester's satisfactory past performance, and agency's selection of offerors with higher past performance ratings is consistent with the evaluation criteria; record does not support that agency was biased against the protester, as alleged. DECISION Sygnetics, Inc., of Rochester Hills, Michigan, protests the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) contract awards to MERS/Missouri Goodwill Industries of St. Louis, Missouri, Rehabilitation Team Associates, Inc. of Bay City, Michigan, and Sterling Medical Associates of Cincinatti, Ohio, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. VA798-9-RP-0059, to provide various assistance services for veterans. Sygnetics protests the agency's evaluation of Sygnetics past performance as merely satisfactory, challenges the agency's best value determinations, and asserts that agency personnel were biased against Sygnetics. We deny the protests. BACKGROUND This solicitation was issued in February 2010 in connection with the VA's responsibility to assist service-disabled veterans in obtaining employment and/or to achieve independence in daily living. RFP at 6. Offerors were advised that awards

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