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B-421496,B-421496.2 Jun 09, 2023 1 (2023-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaooue0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; D ecisio n we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Matter of: Superior Optical Labs, Inc. File: B-421496; B-421496.2 Date: June 9, 2023 John E. McCarthy Jr., Esq., and Zachary H. Schroeder, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP; and Elizabeth H. Connally, Esq., Connally Law, PLLC, for the protester. David S. Gallacher, Esq., and Emily S. Theriault, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for PDS Consultants, Inc., the intervenor. Natica C. Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that solicitation failed to provide a common basis for competition is denied where solicitation specified requirements for commercial items in reasonably unambiguous terms and protester failed to show how solicitation would have resulted in differing interpretations. 2. Protest that agency based price evaluation on defective quantity estimates and failed to reject awardee's unbalanced pricing is denied where agency reasonably based quantity estimates on data from recent orders under incumbent contract and where contracting officer determined that unbalanced pricing was not material because the risk that agency would order higher quantities of overpriced items was low. DECISION Superior Optical Labs, Inc., of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, a small business, protests the award of a contract to PDS Consultants, Inc., of Louisville, Kentucky, also a small business, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C26122R0056. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued the RFP for prescription eyeglasses for veterans in the VA Southern Nevada Health Care System and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, in California. Superior argues that the VA misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest.

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