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B-285060 1 (2000-07-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalcj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: American Medical Depot File: B-285060; B-285060.2; B-285060.3 Date: July 12, 2000 Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., and Timothy Sullivan, Esq., Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, for the protester. Barbara J. Stuetzer, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Exclusion of proposal from competitive range is unobjectionable where agency reasonably concluded that the proposal contained informational deficiencies and other weaknesses that warranted an evaluation rating of marginally acceptable, and the proposed price was relatively high, so that the proposal had no reasonable chance of being selected for award. 2. Although price proposals were improperly evaluated, protest is nonetheless denied where the agency's error inured to the benefit of the protester. 3. Amendment of solicitation after competitive range has been determined does not require revising the competitive range determination where the amendment does not materially change the basis on which initial offers were solicited and submitted. DECISION American Medical Depot (AMD) protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 797-MSPV-99-1005, for the distribution of medical and surgical supplies to specified VA facilities. AMD primarily challenges the evaluation of proposals which led to the competitive range determination. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on June 10, 1999, contemplated an award to a single supplier, known as a Medical Surgical Prime Vendor, to act as the source of distribution for a broad range of medical and surgical products as required by the VA Medical Center

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