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B-310940.3 1 (2009-03-17)

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G              A   O                                                  Comptroller General
     Accuntabiity * Integrity * Reliability                            of the United States
 United States Government Accountability Office
 Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: Encompass Group LLC

          File:       B-310940.3

          Date:       March 17, 2009

          H. K. Tyler Jr. for the protester.
          David G. Fagan, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency.
          Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Agency properly issued delivery order under a General Services Administration
          Federal Supply Schedule contract for mattresses to vendor offering higher priced
          mattresses which the agency reasonably determined were so superior to the lower
          priced mattresses offered by the protester as to justify the associated cost premium.
          DECISION

          Encompass Group LLC of Chicago, Illinois, protests the Department of Veterans
          Affairs' issuance of a delivery order to Sizewise Rentals, LLC of Kansas City,
          Missouri, under that firm's General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Supply
          Schedule (FSS) contract, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA-260-07-
          RQ-0129, for therapeutic hospital mattresses and mattress pumps. Encompass
          argues that the agency improperly evaluated its proposed mattress.

          We deny the protest.

          The RFQ sought quotations from firms holding FSS contracts for therapeutic
          hospital mattresses and pumps. The RFQ required that vendors provide descriptive
          literature and/or brochure information of the mattress specifications and other
          characteristics specified in the description. RFQ at 3. The RFQ, as amended,
          provided for the issuance of an order to the vendor whose quotation was determined
          to represent the best value to the government, with quotations to be evaluated on the
          basis of the following equally weighted factors: technical, past performance and
          price. The technical factor consisted of six equally weighted subfactors: ease of use,
          pressure management, stability and reliability, comfort, warranty, and delivery.

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