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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: iMed Biomedical, Inc.
File: B-416195
Date: July 3, 2018
Kathy Van Every, Esq., Law Offices of Kathy Van Every, for the protester.
Deborah K. Morrell, Esq., and Donald C. Mobly, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs,
for the agency.
Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that the agency has not properly justified a proposed sole-source award is
denied where the agency executed a justification and approval (J&A) and the protester
does not demonstrate that the agency's rationale for the J&A was unreasonable.
DECISION
iMed Biomedical, Inc., of Carrollton, Texas, protests the award of a sole-source contract
to NovaMed Corporation, of Trumbull, Connecticut, under solicitation No.
36C25618R0378, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for maintenance of
Bayer MEDRAD injectors for the Houston, Texas VA Medical Center. iMed asserts that
the agency's decision to award a sole-source contract lacks a rational basis because
more than one viable source was available to fulfill the requirement.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The agency issued a sources sought notice seeking potential offerors to provide all
labor, tools, materials, parts, equipment, supervision, software, license, certification,
transportation, management, and personnel required for preventive maintenance on
government MEDRAD equipment. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, Sources Sought Notice;
Tab 4, Statement of Work, at 1. As relevant to this protest, the sources sought notice
required that the contractor be an authorize[d] vendor, trained technician, possess
licenses and certification for proprietary equipment and services to meet all government
requirements and objectives. Id. at 2. The sources sought notice further required the](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadvdr0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)