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B-310230 1 (2007-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaujr0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision .approved for public release. Matter of. Sunrise Medical HHG, Inc. File: B-310230 Date: December 12, 2007 Leigh T. Hansson, Esq., Gregory S. Jacobs, Esq., and Steven D. Tibbets, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for the protester. Edward 0. Patton, Esq., Mansour, Gavin, Gerlack & Manos Co., LPA, for Invacare Corp., an intervenor. Melbourne A. Noel, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is denied where the agency's evaluation of offerors' technical proposals and past performance were either reasonable or did not prejudice the protester. 2. Protest is denied where agency reasonably did not accept protester's late proposal submission because protester was not the otherwise successful offeror. DECISION Sunrise Medical HHG, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Invacare Corp. under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA-797-NC-06-RP-0001, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for provision of manual wheelchairs. Sunrise contends that the VA unreasonably evaluated offerors' technical and past performance proposals, and that the agency improperly refused to accept the protester's submission of a late proposal modification that lowered its price. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP sought proposals to provide manual wheelchairs and accessories for the VA's Prosthetic Clinical Management Program. The RFP anticipated award of a contract with a 1-year base term, and four 1-year options. Offerors were advised that award would be made to the responsible offeror whose proposal was most

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