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B-412068 1 (2015-12-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrqt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Medfinity, LLC File: B-412068 Date: December 2, 2015 Peter Pham, for the protester. David G. Fagan, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Laura Eyester, Esq., Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that sole source award was improper is denied where the procurement was conducted under simplified acquisition procedures and the record shows that the contracting officer reasonably determined that only one source was reasonably available. DECISION Medfinity, LLC (Medfinity), of Fountain Valley, California, a small business, protests the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) sole source award of a contract to PROAIM Americas, LLC (PROAIM), of Grover, Missouri, a small business, for a Zeiss Humphrey visual field analyzer for the VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. Medfinity argues that the sole source award to PROAIM was improper because there are other visual field analyzers that the VA could have purchased to meet its needs. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On August 17, 2015, the VA posted its justification on the FedBizOpps website for a sole source award (in the amount of $28,170) to PROAIM for a Zeiss Humphrey Field Analyzer 3, Model 860, to replace existing broken equipment at the VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. Agency Report (AR), Tab 6, FedBizOpps Synopsis of Award, Aug. 17, 2015. A visual field analyzer determines a patient's complete visual field, which includes peripheral vision. AR at 1. The VA's Spokane facility tests patients using a visual field analyzer prior to the patient's visit

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