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B-406175,B-406175.2 1 (2012-03-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoqp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .-- Decision Matter of: TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC File: B-406175; B-406175.2 Date: March 1, 2012 Kevin C. Dwyer, Esq., W. Jay DeVecchio, Esq., Daniel E. Chudd, Esq., Edward Jackson, Esq., Jennifer L. Dlugosz, Esq., and Zoila E. Hinson, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester. Daniel P. Graham, Esq., Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Kathryn Bucher, Esq., Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Tara L. Ward, Esq., Craig Smith, Esq., and Katherine Rose McDonald, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Highmark Medicare Services, Inc., an intervenor. Jeffri Pierre, Esq. and Anthony E. Marrone, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's cost realism evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the record demonstrates that agency's conclusions were reasonable. 2. Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated offerors' technical proposals is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 3. Protest challenging the agency's failure to take awardee's divestiture from its parent company into account as part of the technical and cost evaluations is denied where, at the time of contract award, the divestiture had not occurred and was only one possible response to an apparent organizational conflict of interest. DECISION TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC, of Dallas, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Highmark Medicare Services, Inc. (HMS), of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, under request for proposals (RFP) No. CMS-RFP-2011-0005, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to obtain a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) to provide certain health insurance benefit administrative services. The protester asserts that

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