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B-290820 1 (2002-10-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaohi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Nextira Federal, LLC File: B-290820; B-290820.2 Date: October 4, 2002 Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., Richard P. Rector, Esq., and David E. Fletcher, Esq., Piper Rudnick, for the protester. Donald M. Sherwin, Esq., for Communications Products, Inc., an intervenor. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., and Dennis Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a competitive acquisition under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), where the record provides no basis to question the reasonableness of the agency's acceptance of the low-priced FSS vendor's proposal to comply with all solicitation requirements, agency reasonably selected this vendor for the issuance of a task order. DECISION Nextira Federal, LLC protests the selection of Communications Products, Inc. (CPI) under task order proposal request (TOPR) No. VHA-040(656/568), issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to replace/enhance telephone systems at VA medical center facilities in, as relevant here, Minnesota (in the city of St. Cloud) and South Dakota (in the cities of Fort Meade, Hot Springs, and Rapid City). Nextira challenges the evaluation of CPI's proposal. We deny the protest. The TOPR was issued on September 10, 2001, to all Nortel-authorized General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) representatives listed on Nortel's GSA schedule contract No. GS-35F-0140L. The TOPR stated that a task order would be issued to the responsible offeror whose proposal was determined most advantageous to the government. The TOPR provided that technical proposals, which were required to meet all statement of work (SOW) requirements, would be evaluated on the basis of past performance and price, which were considered

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