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B-288661.4 1 (2002-02-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaobj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Galen Medical Associates, Inc. File: B-288661.4; B-288661.5 Date: February 25, 2002 Perry Wallace, M.D., for the protester. Marilee D. Rosenberg, Esq., Philip Kaufman, Esq., and Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated proposals and made an improper award decision is denied where record shows that protester's proposal failed to meet a material requirement of the solicitation, and therefore was ineligible for award. DECISION Galen Medical Associates, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Dr. Deborah Downing, MD PLLC under request for proposals (RFP) No. 586-44-01, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to acquire primary and preventive medical care and continuity of care services at a clinic in Meridian, Mississippi, affiliated with the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. Galen asserts that the agency misevaluated proposals and was biased against Galen. We deny the protest. This is Galen's second protest in connection with this acquisition. In response to Galen's first protest (also alleging various evaluation improprieties), the VA took corrective action by amending the RFP's evaluation scheme, soliciting and evaluating revised proposals and making a new source selection determination. (After being advised of the corrective action, we dismissed Galen's protest as academic.) In response to the original solicitation, the VA received three proposals, including Galen's and Dr. Downing's. In implementing its corrective action, the agency permitted all three firms to submit proposal revisions. After receiving and evaluating

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