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G r~oU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                           of the United States




Decision


Matter of:  Utech Products, dba EndoSoft LLC

File:       B-418060

Date:       December  20, 2019

Abhishek Bajaj, EndoSoft LLC, for the protester.
Christine Longe, Esq., Provation Medical, Inc., for the intervenor.
Lisa C. House, Esq., and Tyler W. Brown, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the
agency.
Joshua R. Gillerman, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's offer is denied where the
record shows that the evaluation was consistent with the solicitation and applicable
statutes and regulations.
DECISION

Utech Products, Inc., dba EndoSoft, LLC, of Schenectady, New York, protests the
award of a contract to Provation Medical, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minnesota, under request
for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C25019Q0191, issued by the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) for an endoscopy software solution. The protester challenges the agency's
evaluation of its offer.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The solicitation, issued on February 1, 2019, under the procedures of Federal
Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13, contemplated the award of a contract, for a 1-year
base period and four 1-year option periods, for the implementation of a replacement
endoscopy software solution for the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.'


1 Although issued as an RFQ, the solicitation refers to firms as offerors and vendors
interchangeably, and responses submitted as simply offers. For the sake of
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