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B-285048.3 1 (2001-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamlc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. File: B-285048.3; B-285048.4; B-285048.5; B-285048.6 Date: January 22, 2001 Cyrus E. Phillips, IV, Esq., for the protester. Joseph J. Petrillo, Esq., and Karen D. Powell, Esq., Petrillo & Powell, for Hummer Whole Health Management, Inc., an intervenor. Merilee D. Rosenberg, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency determination that protester's proposal to hire incumbent contractor's employees to perform contract presented a risk to the agency was reasonable where protester did not furnish required letters of intent from proposed personnel, and protester proposed a lower salary and fewer benefits than the incumbent employer. 2. Best-value analysis was reasonable where agency fully considered the difference in awardee's and protester's proposed prices and determined that the additional benefits offered by the awardee were worth its higher price. DECISION Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Hummer Whole Health Management, Inc. under Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) request for proposals (RFP) No. 101-03-00, for the operation of a comprehensive program of occupational health and wellness for VA and other specified agencies. We deny the protest. The RFP, for a fixed-price requirements contract, contained two statements of work (SOW). The first addressed the majority of services, including treatment of occupational and non-occupational illnesses and injuries, an employee assistance program, and other additional services. The second described the services required to run the VA fitness facility. The RFP provided that offerors who first demonstrated that they had performed similar occupational health services during the past 5 years

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