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B-407223.2 1 (2012-12-13)

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United States Government Accountability Office
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         Decision


Comptroller General
of the United States


   DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
 GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
 approved for public release.
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Matter of: Veterans Healthcare Supply Solutions, Inc.

File:        B-407223.2

Date:     December 13, 2012


Robert E. Korroch, Esq., Williams Mullen, for the protester.
Stephen R. Snodgrass, Esq., Bryan Cave LLP, for the intervenor.
Rebecca L. Tranthem, 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 unreasonably evaluated the protester's bid of an equal product under a
brand name or equal solicitation conducted under simplified acquisition procedures
where the solicitation lacked salient characteristics and the equal product was not
shown to be significantly different from the brand name product.
DECISION

Veterans Healthcare Supply Solutions, Inc. (VHSS), of Jacksonville, Florida,
protests the award by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of a contract to
Metro Medical Equipment & Supply, Inc., of St. Louis, Missouri, under FedBid1 Buy
No. VA248-12-R-1735 to provide five electrosurgical units. 2 VHHS argues that the
agency unreasonably rejected its lower-priced product.


We sustain the protest.


1 FedBid is a commercial online procurement services provider that runs a website
at FedBid.com.
2 Electrosurgery is the application of a high-frequency electric current to biological
tissue as a means to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or fulgurate tissue.


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