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B-299526 1 (2007-06-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaufe0001 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 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: Medical Matrix, LP File: B-299526; B-299526.2 Date: June 12, 2007 Kenneth Weckstein, Esq., Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., and Tammy Hopkins, Esq., Epstein Becker & Green, PC, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., David F. Dowd, Esq., and David B. Robbins, Esq., Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, for SXC Health Solutions, Inc., an intervenor. Maura C. Brown, 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 1. Protest challenging reasonableness of agency's past performance evaluation is denied where challenge is based on assumption that awardee had not previously performed requirements called for in solicitation, which is not supported by record. 2. Protest alleging that agency improperly failed to consider past performance in connection with its evaluation of proposals under technical evaluation criteria is denied where evaluation scheme included separate technical and past performance evaluation criteria, and did not provide for evaluation of past performance under technical criteria. 3. Protest that agency failed to recognize that awardee's proposed price was unrealistically low as compared to protester's is denied where record shows that, although protester was incumbent contractor, solicitation called for work not previously performed by protester; price disparity between protester's and awardee's proposals is attributable to this component of the requirement; and awardee has previous experience performing this aspect of the requirement, which agency recognized as basis for price disparity. DECISION Medical Matrix, LP protests the award of a contract to SXC Health Solutions, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 741-07-05, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for services in connection with providing and managing

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