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B-418019.6 1 (2021-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecla0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Veterans Medical Supply, Inc. File: B-418019.6 Date: January 29, 2021 John M. Manfredonia, Esq., Manfredonia Law Offices, LLC, for the protester. Jennifer Claypool, Esq. and Maura C. Brown, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's corrective action is denied where the record shows that the agency's decision to reopen discussions and seek revised price proposals as part of its corrective action was reasonable and within the agency's broad discretion in this area. DECISION Veterans Medical Supply, Inc., of St. Petersburg, Florida, protests the corrective action taken by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in response to a prior protest with our Office under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C79119R0009, for positive airway pressure devices, accessories, and replacement parts. Veterans Medical Supply maintains that allowing the submission of revised price proposals as part of the agency's corrective action is improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP on November 7, 2019, seeking proposals for various positive airway pressure (PAP) devices, and associated accessories and replacement parts, including facial interfaces and mask liners, to supply VA medical facilities. B-418019.4, Protest, attach. 1, RFP at 6. The RFP provided for the award of multiple fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts on a lowest-priced, technically acceptable basis, with a 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods. Id. at 6, 88.

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