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B-415897,B-415898 1 (2018-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduok0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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: Xenex Disinfection Services, LLC File: B-415897; B-415898 Date: April 17, 2018 Joseph W. Whitehead, Esq., and Scott M. Heimberg, Esq., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, for the protester. Donald C. Mobly, Esq., and Lindsay C. Roop, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., Eric Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where the term effectiveness was not defined in the solicitation and no accepted industry standard definition existed, agency's application of a common sense definition of the term was reasonable. 2. In procurement of disinfection devices for use in a hospital setting, where evaluation was based on agency review of peer-reviewed journals by evaluators with substantial expertise, we will not question an agency's exercise of medical judgment in assessing whether medical information is reliable or significant. DECISION Xenex Disinfection Services, LLC, a small business of San Antonio, Texas, protests the award of two contracts to Steriliz, LLC, of Rochester, New York, under solicitation Nos. VA250-17-Q-0774 and VA250-17-Q-0746 by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for ultraviolet (UV) disinfection devices to be used in VA hospitals. The protester alleges that the awardee's product fails to meet material requirements of the solicitations and that the agency should have found the awardee technically unacceptable. We deny the protests.

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