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B-419622,B-419622.2 Jun 07, 2021 1 (2021-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaolwb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G A O A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: VetPride Services, Inc. File: B-419622; B-419622.2 Date: June 7, 2021 Sarah Schauerte Reida, Esq., Legal Meets Practical, LLC, for the protester. Daniel McFeely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Kasia Dourney, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the awardee's proposal could not have complied with the technical requirements of the solicitation, given its low price, is dismissed where, in essence, the protester contends that the agency should have performed a price realism evaluation that was neither provided for nor permitted under the solicitation. 2. Protest alleging that the agency improperly defined its requirement, resulting in a latently ambiguous solicitation, is denied where the record shows that the terms of the solicitation are not ambiguous and the solicitation provides sufficient information to allow offerors to intelligently prepare their proposals on a common basis. 3. Protester is not an interested party to challenge other aspects of the agency's award decision where its proposal was found unacceptable and excluded from further consideration, based on its proposed price exceeding the available funding limit for the procurement, and where there is no basis to conclude that the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal was unreasonable or the agency improperly defined the requirement. DECISION VetPride Services, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Raleigh, North Carolina, protests the award of a contract to Marquis Solutions, LLC, an SDVOSB of Westfield, Indiana, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C26221 R0012, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for valet parking services at the VA Medical Center in Long Beach, California. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal, and contends that the agency improperly defined the requirement. We dismiss the protest in part and deny it in part.

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