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B-405371 1 (2011-10-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoho0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .L G A 0 Comptroller General .in 7Accountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Pride Mobility Products Corporation File: B-405371 Date: October 25, 2011 Ted Raquet for the protester. Maura C. Brown, Esq. and Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that specifications in a negotiated procurement that require power wheelchairs to meet certain safety standards and to be transportable by a passenger vehicle hitch are mutually exclusive is denied where protester provides no evidence that the specifications are impossible to meet and fails to show that the agency's judgment is unreasonable. DECISION Pride Mobility Products Corporation of Exeter, Pennsylvania, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. VA-797-1 1-RP-0097, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for power wheelchairs. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued as a commercial item acquisition, provides for the award of a fixed-price requirements contract for compact and standard power wheelchairs (CPW and SPW, respectively) with various optional equipment. RFP at 6, 17, 62; RFP amend. 1, at 3-4; RFP amend. 10, at 3. Detailed specifications were provided that require, among other things, various user safety features and that each wheelchair be transportable via a passenger vehicle hitch. See RFP at 6; RFP amend. 1, at 2. The RFP provides consumer and environmental profiles in this regard for each type of wheelchair describing the intended users and their mobility needs. RFP at 6. The

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