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B-419794 Jun 25, 2021 1 (2021-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaomal0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo_ U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Sterling Medical Associates, Inc. File: B-419794 Date: June 25, 2021 Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., Suzanne Sumner, Esq., Erin R. Davis, Esq., Brandon E. Dobyns, Esq., and Sean A. Graves, Esq., Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, for the protester. Stuart B. Nibley, Esq., Erica L. Bakies, Esq., Melody A. Alemansour, Esq., and Sarah F. Burgart, Esq., K&L Gates LLP, for Valor Healthcare, Inc., the intervenor. Deborah K. Morrell, Esq., and Kathleen Ellis, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Post-award protest challenging alleged solicitation ambiguity is dismissed as untimely where any ambiguity in the solicitation language was patent. DECISION Sterling Medical Associates, Inc., located in Cincinnati, Ohio, protests the award of a contract to Valor Healthcare, Inc., of Dallas, Texas, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C24920R0010, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for community based outpatient clinic (CBOC) services at two locations in Tennessee. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated proposals and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND On June 2, 2020, the agency issued the solicitation seeking primary medical and mental health care services through primary care CBOCs located within Maury County, Tennessee and McMinnville, Tennessee.1 The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed- 1 The protester is the incumbent contractor at the McMinnville CBOC.

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