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B-414171.2,B-414171.3 1 (2018-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadumw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: CRAssociates, Inc. File: B-414171.2; B-414171.3 Date: January 16, 2018 Matthew R. Keller, Esq., Matthew Keller Law, PLLC, for the protester. Melody A. Goldberg, Esq., Donald C. Mobly, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency's price evaluation failed to reasonably assess the risk of awardee's low pricing is denied where the solicitation did not provide for a price realism evaluation. 2. Protest that agency failed to assess strengths for certain aspects of protester's proposal is denied where the protester's arguments amount to disagreement with the agency's evaluation and the agency's evaluation was reasonable. DECISION CRAssociates, Inc. (CRA), of Newington, VA, protests the award of a contract to STG International, Inc., of Alexandria, VA, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA263-17- R-001 3, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs for community-based outpatient clinic services in North Dakota. The protester alleges that the agency erred in evaluating both the awardee's and CRA's proposals. The protest is denied. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on October 24, 2016, as a commercial item procurement under Federal Acquisition Regulation part 12, and contemplated the award of a fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for clinical services for veterans with one base-year and four option-years. RFP at 1, 5. The RFP provided that proposals would be assessed on the basis of the following factors, listed in descending order of

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