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B-419030,B-419030.3 1 (2020-11-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecdc0001 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: Red One Medical Devices, LLC File: B-419030; B-419030.3 Date: November 16, 2020 Maria Panichelli, Esq., Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, for the protester. Jennifer Claypool, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Proposals that did not demonstrate compliance with the solicitation requirements were reasonably eliminated from consideration for award. DECISION Red One Medical Devices, LLP, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Savannah, Georgia, protests the award of a contract to LMH Hawthorne Healthcare, Inc. d/b/a/ Pisces Healthcare (Pisces) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C79119R0004, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for orthotic soft goods and prosthetic supplies. Red One complains that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal as unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on April 8, 2019, for orthotic soft goods and prosthetic supplies. RFP at 7. The solicitation contemplated the award of multiple fixed-priced, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts with a 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods. Id. at 8. The maximum order amount, to be shared among all awarded contracts, is $200 million. RFP amend. 04 at 4. The solicitation included 44 line items, each of which would be independently evaluated and awarded. RFP at 8-9. Offerors were permitted to submit a proposal for one or more line items. Id. at 113. As relevant here, line items 29, 30, and 31, which were set aside for SDVOSBs, were for compression stockings. Id. at 8.

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