About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

B-414137.3 1 (2017-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadthq0001 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: American Access, Inc.

         File:       B-414137.3

         Date:       April 11,2017

         Richard F. Busch II, Esq., Busch Law Firm, LLC, for the protester.
         Brian R. Reed, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency.
         Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest arguing that solicitation amendment and email transmitting the amendment
         created an ambiguity as to the date from which prices were requested to be
         extended is denied where the amendment is not susceptible to two reasonable
         interpretations and the record shows that the protester in fact acknowledged the
         amendment in a manner that reflected the amendment's intended meaning.
         DECISION

         American Access, Inc., of Bartlett, Tennessee, protests the terms of amendment 15
         to request for proposals (RFP) No. VA240C-1 4-R-001 5, issued by the Department
         of Veterans Affairs (VA) for modular ramps. The protester argues that the
         amendment and email transmitting the amendment contain patent ambiguities as to
         the date from which prices were requested to be extended for a set period of time.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         The RFP, issued on October 9, 2015, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
         parts 12 and 15 and set aside for small businesses, sought portable, modular ramps
         to be assembled at the homes of veterans who cannot navigate stairs, for three
         service area office (SAO) regions:1 SAO-East, SAO-West, and SAO-Central. RFP2

         1 The management of the VA's healthcare facilities in the United States is organized
         into three large SAO regions and within each of the three regions facilities are
                                                                         (continued...)

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

profiles profiles most