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B-293632.3 1 (2004-06-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaplt0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Ira Wiesenfeld & Associates File: B-293632.3 Date: June 21, 2004 Ira Wiesenfeld for the protester. Dennis Foley, Esq., Philip Kauffman, Esq., and Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's rejection of proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where record shows agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation terms and applicable procurement rules. DECISION Ira Wiesenfeld & Associates protests the agency's rejection of its proposal as technically unacceptable under solicitation No. 247-0170-04, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for a narrow band radio paging system. We deny the protest. This protest follows an earlier protest filed with our Office by Wiesenfeld challenging the agency's award of a sole-source contract to meet its paging system requirements. In that protest, Wiesenfeld alleged that the agency failed to consider product information it had submitted in response to the agency's notice of the proposed sole- source award. In response to the protest, the agency agreed to furnish a copy of the solicitation for the paging system to the protester, and to evaluate the firm's proposal. Wiesenfeld subsequently withdrew the protest and submitted a proposal to the agency for evaluation. The agency subsequently rejected the protester's proposal as technically unacceptable for failure to comply with mandatory technical requirements for one of the items being sought, combination voice/alphanumeric pagers. In particular, the agency determined that the proposed pagers failed to meet the solicitation's

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