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B-412960,B-412960.2 1 (2016-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadskg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States U n ite dd S tate ss G o ve rn m e ntt A c co u nta b ilityy O ff iceer.-.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsigt , Stats Gn ADOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision obeen approved for public release. Matter of: Valor Healthcare, Inc. File: B-412960; B-412960.2 Date: July 15, 2016 Stuart B. Nibley, Esq., Andrew N. Cook, Esq., and Amy M. Conant, Esq., K&L Gates LLP, for the protester. Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., Suzanne Sumner, Esq., and Trenton Hamilton, Esq., Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, for Sterling Medical Associates, an intervenor. Harold W. Askins III, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency failed to evaluate the realism of the awardee's pricing is sustained where the record does not show that the agency conducted a price realism analysis comparing the awardee's pricing with its proposed technical approach, as required by the solicitation. 2. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's proposal is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement statutes and regulations. DECISION Valor Healthcare, Inc., of Addison, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Sterling Medical Associates, of Cincinnati, Ohio, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA244-14-R-01 09 for community-based, outpatient clinic services in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Valor alleges that the agency failed to evaluate the realism of Sterling's pricing in accordance with the solicitation. Valor also alleges that the agency's evaluation of its own proposal was unreasonable in various respects. We sustain the protest in part and deny it in part.

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