Oxygen Company Wins Challenge to Elimination From VA Procurement

Hometown Veterans Medical LLC showed that the US Department of Veterans Affairs improperly eliminated it from a procurement to provide home oxygen services for patients served by an Alabama medical center, the GAO said in a decision released Wednesday.

Eliminating Hometown Veterans’ proposal for not submitting copies of two representations/certifications was unreasonable because the solicitation didn’t clearly require them, the Government Accountability Office said.

• The VA should consider amending the request for proposals to state additional criteria on which it intends to evaluate proposals and seek revised proposals, the GAO said
• It should alternatively consider reevaluating all proposals consistent with ...