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B-409614.3,B-409614.4 1 (2014-11-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqtw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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 Decision [e for pic release. Matter of: Focus Diagnostics, Inc. File: B-409614.3; B-409614.4 Date: November 24, 2014 Merle M. DeLancey, Jr., Esq., Justin A. Chiarodo, Esq., Stephanie M. Zechmann, Esq., and Philip E. Beshara, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for the protester. Scott E. Pickens, Esq., William M. Jack, Esq., and Amba M. Datta, Esq., Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and David T. Hickey, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for BioFire Defense, LLC, an intervenor. Frank A. March, Esq., Scott N. Flesch, Esq., MAJ Jamal A. Rhinehardt, MAJ Cameron R. Edlefsen, MAJ James W. Nelson, and CPT Evan C. Williams, Department of the Army, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that discussions regarding protester's biomedical diagnostic system were not meaningful is denied where record reflects that agency provided technical descriptions of all significant weaknesses and deficiencies evaluated against protester's system. 2. Protest that agency improperly failed to consider effect of proposal revisions on protester's initial performance-based evaluation ratings is denied where record reflects that evaluation was consistent with terms of solicitation and that agency considered proposal revisions under stand-alone evaluation criterion established for that purpose. 3. Protest regarding training of agency personnel responsible for testing protester's biomedical diagnostic system is denied where record shows agency actions to be reasonable and consistent with solicitation. 4. Protest that agency unreasonably considered user errors experienced by agency personnel testing protester's biomedical diagnostic system in simulated military healthcare deployment is denied where record reflects that testing methodology and findings reasonably relate to solicitation's military utility assessment subfactor.

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