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B-278189.5 1 (1998-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahnh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Anthem Alliance for Health, Inc.; TRICARE Management Activity--Reconsideration File: B-278189.5 Date: July 13, 1998 Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., Scott E. Pickens, Esq., and David F. Dowd, Esq., Miller & Chevalier, for Anthem Alliance for Health, Inc., a requester. Kenneth S. Lieb, Esq., TRICARE Management Activity, for the agency, a requester. Thomas P. Humphrey, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for Foundation Health Federal Services, Inc., an intervenor. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Joint request for reconsideration of decision sustaining protests on the basis that the agency failed to disclose the relative importance of evaluation criteria, evaluated the awardee's proposal contrary to the solicitation's requirements, and conducted a cost evaluation that contained arbitrary assessments, is denied where the requesting parties do not demonstrate that our prior decision contained factual or legal errors. DECISION Anthem Alliance for Health, Inc. and the Department of Defense's TRICARE Management Activity (TMA),1 jointly request reconsideration of our decision Foundation Health Fed. Servs., Inc.: Humana Military Healthcare Servs., Inc., B-278189.3, B-278189.4, Feb. 4, 1998, 98-1 CPD ___, in which we sustained Foundation's and Humana's protests against the award of a contract to Anthem under request for proposals (RFP) No. MDA906-95-R-0005, for health care and associated administrative services for Military Health Services System (MHSS) beneficiaries. We deny the request. 1At the time our prior decision was issued, the agency was known as the TRICARE Support Office. The agency has recently been renamed the TRICARE Management Activity.

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