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B-420428,B-420428.2 Mar 14, 2022 1 (2022-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaomwn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A Oi U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 L been approved for public release. Matter of: Superior Optical Labs, Inc. File: B-420428; B-420428.2 Date: March 14, 2022 John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., and Zachary H. Schroeder, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP; and Elizabeth Haws Connally, Esq., Connally Law, PLLC, for the protester. David S. Gallacher, Esq., Emily S. Theriault, Esq., and Adam A. Bartolanzo, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for PDS Consultants, Inc., an intervenor. Natica Chapman Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Christine Milne, Esq., Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied where record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable statutes and regulations. DECISION Superior Optical Labs, Inc., of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, protests the award of a contract to PDS Consultants, Inc., of Sparta, New Jersey, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C24221 R0056, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for prescription eyeglasses. The protester contends that the agency's evaluation of PDS's proposal was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP is for the provision of prescription eyeglasses within the Veterans Integrated Service Network for New York/New Jersey upstate area (VISN 2) and contemplates the award of a single fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods. RFP at 54-55, 134. The RFP provided that

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