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B-411904 1 (2015-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrpx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: f\ G A Comptroller General ~ty * Integrity * Rel lability 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. Decision Matter of: Veterans Healthcare Supply Solutions, Inc. File: B-411904 Date: November 12, 2015 Nicole Hardin Brakstad, Esq., and Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., LeClair Ryan, for the protester. Stephen R. Snodgrass, Esq., Bryan Cave LLP, for PROAIM Americas, LLC, the intervenor. Tyler W. Brown, Esq., and Daniel C. Rattray, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of an award of a sole-source contract for brand name medical equipment is denied where the agency had a rational basis for standardizing such equipment to improve patient safety. DECISION Veterans Healthcare Supply Solutions, Inc., (VHSS) of Jacksonville, Florida, protests the award a sole-source contract to PROAIM Americas, LLC, of Grover, Missouri, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA246-15-Q-1045, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for brand name argon plasma coagulators (APC). VHSS contends that the sole-source award is not justified and is contrary to applicable procurement laws and regulations. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND The W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury, North Carolina, (VAMC) will open new healthcare centers (HCC) in Kernersville and Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2016. According to the VAMC's website, once completed, the two HCCs will provide significantly expanded outpatient services to more than 65,000 North Carolina veterans annually under the Salisbury VAMC's health care system,

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