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B-418037 1 (2020-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeani0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. D e c is i o n ............................ . .................................................. Matter of: Salem Community Hospital dba Salem Regional Medical Center File: B-418037 Date: December 23, 2019 Joseph J. Feltes, Esq., and Daniel J. Glass, Esq., Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC, for the protester. Oleta L. Vassilopoulos, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the protester's proposal to provide medical services for a federal correctional facility was misevaluated as technically unacceptable is denied where the proposal was at best ambiguous because the protester failed to provide pricing for some of the services that it described in the technical proposal. 2. Protest that the agency improperly refused to evaluate the protester's pricing that used a different pricing methodology from the one expressly required the solicitation is dismissed as an untimely challenge to the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Salem Community Hospital, doing business as Salem Regional Medical Center, of Salem, Ohio, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. 15B21619R00000001, issued by the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), for commercial medical services for the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Elkton, at Lisbon, Ohio. Salem, the incumbent contractor, argues that BOP misevaluated its proposal as unacceptable. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued April 10, 2019, sought proposals to provide comprehensive medical services for a base year, four annual option periods, and a six-month extension of services option, under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) fixed-price

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