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B-293811.5 1 (2004-12-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapml0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Williamson County Ambulance Service, Inc. File: B-293811.5; B-293811.6; B-293811.7 Date: December 15, 2004 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Dennis Foley, Esq., and Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging technical and past performance evaluation of proposals for ambulance services is denied where agency reasonably evaluated proposals consistent with evaluation criteria and record otherwise supports the agency's source selection decision. 2. Protest asserting a conflict of interest because evaluator's daughter now works for awardee is denied, where daughter did not seek employment until after evaluation had been completed, and the source selection official had no knowledge of this employment until after award. DECISION Williamson County Ambulance Service, Inc. protests the award of three contracts to Mercy Regional Emergency Health Services under request for proposals (RFP) No. V15-04-0026, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for ambulance services at various locations in Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana. Williamson challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP sought proposals to provide ambulance services for VA hospitals in five locations: Marion, Illinois; Effingham, Illinois; Mt. Vernon, Illinois; Paducah, Kentucky; and Evansville, Indiana. Firms were invited to submit proposals for any or all of these areas. The RFP provided for the award of a fixed-unit-price contract

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