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B-262016.2 1 (1996-02-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadrs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Marquette Electronics, Inc. File: B-262016.2; B-262016.3 Date: February 15, 1996 Jonathan 0. Levine, Esq., and Mitchell W. Quick, Esq., Michael, Best & Friedrich, for the protester. William Weisberg, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Mountain & Tolle, for Hewlett-Packard Company, an intervenor. Nicholas P. Retson, Esq., and Michael J. O'Farrell, Jr., Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that the awardee's proposal does not meet the solicitation's technical requirements is denied where agency found that awardee's proposal evidenced compliance with the specifications and the protester has not shown that agency's conclusion was unreasonable. DECISION Marquette Electronics, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DADA15-94-R-0068, which was issued by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for a patient monitoring and clinical information system with turnkey installation. Marquette alleges that the source selection was flawed by various improprieties and argues that these improprieties, taken together, demonstrate bad faith on the agency's part. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued in December 1994, contemplated the award of a firm, fixed-price contract for delivery and installation of equipment, with six 1-year options for systems maintenance. The equipment included a patient monitoring system, which consists basically of monitors that obtain physiological data such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc. from the patient, and a clinical information system (CIS), which is a computer-based system for the storage, retrieval, display, and archiving of patient data. The CIS would include more than 500 user display terminals and data acquisition from more than 249 patient monitoring devices, covering every significant clinical unit in the medical center. The RFP specified that all 626213

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