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B-407108 1 (2012-11-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpen0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Laboratory Corporation of America File: B-407108 Date: November 5, 2012 David E. Frulla, Esq., Robert I. Steiner, Esq., and Elizabeth C. Johnson, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for the protester. Merle M. DeLancey, Esq., and Ryan P. McGovern, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for Quest Diagnostics, Inc., an intervenor. Kevin L. Pearson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under solicitation contemplating establishment of fixed-price blanket purchase agreement, protest objecting to agency's failure to perform realism analysis of successful vendor's pricing for individual items is denied where the contracting officer reasonably evaluated the awardee's lower price. 2. Protester's challenge to technical evaluation is denied where the weaknesses attributed to the protester's technical submission were reasonably based. DECISION Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), of Burlington, North Carolina, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute (Quest), of Chantilly, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA-246-1 1 -RQ-0321, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs for laboratory testing services for Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 6. The protester argues the agency failed to conduct an adequate analysis of the realism of Quest's proposed pricing. LabCorp also argues that the evaluation of its own technical proposal was unreasonable.' 1 While the solicitation was issued as a RFQ, it referred to vendor submissions as proposals and the vendors themselves as offerors.

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