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B-274585 1 (1996-11-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaemj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: CardioMetrix File: B-274585 Date: November 18, 1996 Robert J. Loring for the protester. Lyman Goon, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the solicitation as amended was ambiguous is untimely where filed after the next closing date for receipt of proposals following the amendment; protester may not simply make unsupported assumptions regarding the meaning of the solicitation and then expect relief when the agency does not interpret the solicitation in the manner the protester assumed it would. DECISION CardioMetrix protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA-96-0001, issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA), for health care services. The protester argues that as amended, as evaluation factor in the solicitation was ambiguous, and that had it understood the agency's interpretation of the evaluation factor, it would have proposed a different physician in order to qualify for a more favorable evaluation. We dismiss the protest. The RFP, issued on April 17, 1996, requested proposals for a fixed-price contract for a base year with 4 option years to provide physician services for a federal employee's health clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Technical factors were equal in importance to price. The evaluation factors included minimum pass/fail qualification requirements for the proposed primary and substitute physician. Among other things, the proposed physicians were required to be board certified or board eligible in either occupational medicine, internal medicine, family practice, or emergency medicine, and to have a minimum of 2 years of hands on clinical experience in one of four identified medical fields. In this regard, the RFP instructed offerors to provide, among other things, evidence of board certification in internal medicine, family 2581118

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