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B-261758 1 (1995-10-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaccv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Moore Medical Corporation File: B-261758 Date: October 26, 1995 Joseph C. Tarantino for the protester. Joseph K. Wiener, Esq., Piper & Marbury, for General Medical Corporation; Gene R. Carper for Seneca Medical, Inc., and J. Michael O'Connor for Colonial Healthcare Supply Co., interested parties. Barbara J. Stuetzer, Esq., and Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., John Van Schaik, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's evaluation of proposals for medical/surgical supplies under a primary distributor program was reasonable where protester's proposal and references did not demonstrate sufficient breadth, depth, or relevancy of experience to assure contracting officer that the firm could successfully perform the contract. DECISION Moore Medical Corporation protests the rejection of its proposal by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. M3-Q1-95, alleging improprieties in the agency's evaluation of proposals. We deny the protest. The RFP was issued to establish a primary distributor program for procuring medical/surgical supplies through the award of multiple distributor agreements for each of 25 geographic cluster groups. The RFP statement of work explained the agency's intention to convert to commercially based distribution systems by establishing a multiple award medical/surgical primary distributor schedule for brand-name specific and generic medical and surgical supplies. The RFP described a primary distributor as a business concern that functions as a purchaser's principal source for a broad product line of medical and surgical supplies. The VA and other government agencies' medical facilities would use the distributor agreements to select primary (and/or secondary) distributors to provide medical/surgical supplies. The RFP explained that successful offerors were to maintain inventory for an extensive medical/surgical product line and were to possess the experience, skills 12301025

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