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B-409705.3 1 (2015-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: SS Medical, Inc. File: B-409705.3 Date: April 17, 2015 Brian F. Wilbourn, Esq., Isaias Alba, IV, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the intervenor. Tracy Downing, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against the agency's evaluation of the offerors' proposals and the source selection decision is denied where the record furnishes no basis for questioning the reasonableness of the evaluation ratings and resulting award determination. DECISION SS Medical, Inc. (SSMI) of Bixby, Oklahoma, protests the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) award of a contract to Greene Respiratory Services, Inc. (Greene), of Milford, Ohio, under Request for Proposals (RFP) No. VA249-14-R-01 73, for home oxygen services. SSMI challenges the evaluation of the offerors' technical proposals and asserts that the source selection decision was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on March 11, 2014, as a total small business set-aside, provided for the award of six indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts,1 with a 1 The VA planned to award one ID/IQ contract for each of the six Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 areas of consideration. RFP at 66. The protester here challenges the award of contracts for the following three areas of consideration: (continued...)

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