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B-407486.2,B-407486.3 1 (2013-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpmq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A 0 Comptroller General o i~bcA ; taI 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 Decision .beenapprovedforpubic release. Matter of: Trailblazer Health Enterprises, LLC File: B-407486.2; B-407486.3 Date: April 16, 2013 Craig A. Holman, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., Steffen G. Jacobsen, Esq., and Dana E. Peterson, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Daniel P. Graham, Esq., Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Kathryn Bucher, Esq., Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Katherine R. McDonald, Esq., and Tyler E. Robinson, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Novitas Solutions, Inc., an intervenor. Erin V. Podolny, Esq., and Douglas Kornreich, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging a determination that the protester was not responsible is denied where the contracting officer's judgment was reasonably based. 2. A nonresponsible protester is not an interested party under Government Accountability Office Bid Protest Regulations to challenge the evaluation of the awardee's proposal, where the protester would not be in line for award if the protest were sustained. DECISION TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC, of Dallas, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Novitas Solutions, Inc., of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFP-CMS-2012-0003, 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 services for the administration of Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B (A/B) fee-for-service benefit claims. TrailBlazer challenges CMS's evaluation of proposals and selection decision. The protester also contends that the contracting officer's determination that TrailBlazer was not a responsible offeror was unreasonable. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

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