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B-311385 1 (2008-06-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawak0001 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: Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital File: B-311385 Date: June 19, 2008 Jeffrey E. Weinstein, Esq., for the protester. Laurel A. Hockey, Esq., Cohen Mohr, for Sterling Medical Associates, an intervenor. Harold W. Askins III, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency purportedly performed inadequate cost realism analysis is denied where no such analysis was required because solicitation contemplated award of fixed-price, rather than cost-reimbursement, contract and did not provide for any realism analysis. 2. Protest challenging scores assigned protester's and awardee's proposals under technical evaluation factors is denied where protester was not competitively prejudiced; even if protester's proposal received maximum possible technical score and awardee's score were reduced in accordance with protester's allegations, awardee would remain in line for award when price scores are considered. DECISION Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital (PPMH) protests the award of a contract to Sterling Medical Associates, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA-247-07- RP-0122, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for primary care and mental health services for veterans. Phoebe asserts that VA misevaluated its and Sterling's proposals and performed an improper best value analysis. We deny the protest. The solicitation provided for a best value award of an indefinite-quantity/ indefinite-delivery fixed-price contract based on four evaluation factors (in descending order of importance): experience and staffing (comprised of six subfactors), coordination and continuity of care (six subfactors), past performance (five subfactors), and price. RFP at 67. The solicitation provided that the factors,

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