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B-412188.2 1 (2016-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsbk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: PatriotVetlT, LLC File: B-412188.2 Date: March 23, 2016 Leonard Hawrilenko for the protester. Paul K. Petraborg, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and selection of higher-priced, higher technically rated proposal is denied where evaluation and selection were reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation evaluation criteria. DECISION PatriotVetlT, LLC, a service-disabled, veteran-owned, small business, of Sarasota, Florida, protests the award of a contract to Dockside Imaging, LLC, of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA263-15-R-0451, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for mobile magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services. PatriotVetlT argues that the agency misevaluated its technical proposal and past performance. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on August 3, 2015, as a service-disabled, veteran-owned, small business set-aside, sought proposals for the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for mobile MRI services. RFP at 1, 57, and 61. The RFP set out three factors for award: (1) technical capability; (2) past performance, and (3) price. Id. at 57. Award was to be made to the offeror that submitted the proposal deemed to present the best value. Id. at 58. The RFP instructed offerors to provide sufficient detail in their proposals to allow for the evaluation of technical capability. Id. at 57. With regard to past performance, the RFP instructed offerors

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