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B-297262 1 (2005-12-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqzs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Metro Home Medical Supply, Inc. File: B-297262 Date: December 8, 2005 Cheryl Anderson-Small for the protester. Merilee D. Rosenberg, Esq., and Philip Kauffman, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest objecting to agency's failure to make award to protester, an Historically Underutilized Business Zone small business, on a sole-source basis is denied where prerequisites for a sole-source award, set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation § 19.1306, were not met. DECISION Metro Home Medical Supply, Inc., a certified Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small business, protests the decision of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to procure supplies and services for beneficiaries of the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Detroit under request for proposals (RFP) No. 583- 00035-06, rather than through award of a contract to Metro on a sole-source basis. We deny the protest. The RFP, which was issued on July 15, 2005, sought home oxygen supplies and services for patients of seven VA medical centers and health care systems located in Veterans Integrated Service Network 11, one of which was the John D. Dingell VAMC. The solicitation contemplated the award of one or more fixed-price requirements contracts for a base period of I year and four 1-year options. The RFP, as amended, provided for award on the basis of the following cascaded preferences: * for the John D. Dingell VAMC and three of the other facilities, if technically acceptable, competitive

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