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B-212618 1 (1984-10-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlyj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~c, THE COMPTROLLER SENEIAL DUCIDION 0P THE UNITED S11TATESII WASINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-212618 DATE: October 2, 1984 MATTER OF: Hudson Valley Medical Professional Review Organization DIGEST: 1. Potential offeror for contract under grant is interested party to complain of solicitation defects and alleged bias toward it, even though it did not submit an offer. It is not an interested party, however, to complain of unrelated problems in the evaluation of offers received in response to the solicita- tion, even though it participated as a proposed subcontractor. 2. Complainant has not provided hard facts showing bias against it and grantee has provided reasonable explanations for actions cited by complainant as evidence of bias. Therefore, we deny the complaint on this issue. 3. Complaint is sustained where grantee's request for proposals did not provide information sufficient to apprise potential offerors of the relative importance of technical and cost factors and where actual evaluation used undisclosed evaluation factors that were not subfactors of disclosed factors. Hudson Valley Medical Professional Standards Review Organization (Hudson Valley) complains that a solicitation for the review of Medicaid services issued by the New York State Department of Health (New York) contains impermissibly vague evaluation criteria and is tainted by New York's bias against it. Hudson Valley also complains that other sole- source contracts for the review of Medicaid services are improper. Additionally, Hudson Valley complains that the technical evaluators used two undisclosed evaluation criteria, and that New York improperly failed to conduct discussions with offerors.

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