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B-260778.2 1 (1996-02-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadpx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision REDACTED DECISION A poteteddeisin ws isud o th dae elow and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: Deployable Hospital Systems, Inc. File: B-260778.2; B-260778.3 Date: February 12, 1996 Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Fran Baskin, Esq., Holmes, Schwartz & Gordon, for the protester. Barbara S. Kinosky, Esq., Bean, Kinney & Korman, for TVI Corporation, an interested party. Robert B. Tauchen, Esq., and Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly determined that awardee satisfied a definitive responsibility criterion requiring it to provide evidence of recent sales of the item being procured or similar items is denied where the agency's determination that the awardee's recent sales constituted sales of similar items is fully and reasonably supported. 2. Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated awardee's financial capability as part of the technical evaluation by ignoring evidence questioning the findings of a pre-award survey is denied where the contracting officer considered this evidence and reasonably determined, notwithstanding that information, that the firm remained financially capable of performing the contract. 3. Protest asserting disparate treatment and improper evaluation of technical proposals is denied where the record shows that the evaluation of proposals was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria save for one aspect, and correction of this aspect of the evaluation in the manner most favorable to the protester would not affect the reasonableness of the award determination since, at most, the two offerors would be approximately technically equal; the 1252226

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