SOW Required Medical Content to be Written by Expert Physicians, Not Editorial Team; GAO B-414150, EBSCO Industries Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s justification for awarding a sole-source contract for a medical reference database is denied, where the agency had an immediate need for the requirement, and where the protester’s content would not be written and peer-reviewed by expert physicians in the relevant specialties, as required by the statement of work, but developed by content experts and an editorial team.