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B-274269 1 (1996-12-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaelf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: The Research Foundation of State University of New York File: B-274269 Date: December 2, 1996 Benjamin J. Luft, M.D., James R. Dennehey, Esq., and Concetta Angilella, Esq., for the protester. Theodore M. Hess-Mahan, Esq., Ropes & Gray, for New England Medical Center, an intervenor. Richard Brown, Esq. and Michael Colvin, for the Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably accepted in its cost evaluation the proposed costs of proposals offering significantly different technical approaches to performing clinical studies where the solicitation contemplated proposals based upon the offerors' creativity in developing and designing their own protocols for the study and the agency reviewed the cost elements of each proposal and found each proposal's cost reasonable and realistic for the particular study proposed. DECISION The Research Foundation of State University of New York (SUNY) protests the award of a contract to New England Medical Center (NEMC), by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NJAID), under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIH-NJAID-DMID-96-09, for clinical studies of chronic lyme disease. We deny the protest.1 The RFP, issued June 15, 1995, contemplated a cost reimbursement, level-of-effort, contract for a 5-year term. The contractor is to develop the research infrastructure for NJAID to address two essential issues--the evaluation of therapeutic approaches to treat patients with chronic lyme disease and the pathological basis/bases of the 'A hearing was conducted to obtain testimony regarding the protest issues. 1214123

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