About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-296231.2 1 (2005-09-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqwu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States 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: Med Optical File: B-296231.2; B-296231.3 Date: September 7, 2005 Joseph M. Goldstein, Esq., Shutts & Bowen LLP, for the protester. William J. Cea, Esq., Becker & Poliakoff, PA, for Vision MarketPlace, Inc., an intervenor. Merilee Rosenberg, Esq., and Dennis Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency's evaluation of the awardee's past performance was improper is denied where the record supports the agency's evaluation. 2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the alleged evaluation errors did not result in competitive prejudice to protester. DECISION Med Optical protests the award of a contract to Vision MarketPlace, Inc. (VMP) by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 546-18-05 to supply prescription eyeglasses and eye exams to veterans in Broward County, Florida. Med Optical primarily asserts in its original protest that the awardee failed to offer a facility that dispenses eyeglasses and eye exams and is located within 5 miles of the nearest VA medical facility, as required by the RFP, and that the agency improperly evaluated VMP's past performance. In a supplemental protest, Med Optical asserts that its ranking was improperly reduced from second to fourth place during the reevaluation of proposals.' 1 We dismissed another protest ground, that the agency had improperly evaluated Med Optical's proposal, for failing to set forth detailed legal and factual grounds for a protest.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most