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B-292981,B-292981.10,B-292981.2,B-292981.3,B-292981.4,B-292981.5 1 (2004-01-09)

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         G    A     0Comptroller General
 ........ LAccountability * Integrity Reliability                   of the United States
United States General Accounting 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.

         Decision

         Matter  of: ACS  State Healthcare, LLC; PharmaCare Government Services, Inc.;
                     PGBA,  LLC; Humana Military Healthcare Services, Inc.

         File:       B-292981; B-292981.2; B-292981.3; B-292981.4; B-292981.5; B-292981.6;
                     B-292981.7; B-292981.8; B-292981.9 B-292981.10

         Date:       January 9, 2004

         Robert J. Sherry, Esq., Kathleen M. Paralusz, Esq., Dylan B. Carp, Esq., and Marc R.
         Baluda, Esq., Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, for ACS State Healthcare, LLC; Gerard R.
         Doyle, Esq., and Ron R. Hutchinson, Esq., Doyle & Bachman, for PharmaCare
         Government  Services, Inc.; Kathleen E. Karelis, Esq., W. Jay Devecchio, Esq., Robert
         K. Huffman, Esq., Lisanne S. Cottington, Esq., Edward Jackson, Esq., Christine S.
         Ricci, Esq., Jeffrey C. Walker, Esq., and Alexa Zevitas, Esq., Miller & Chevalier, for
         PGBA,  LLC; Thomas P. Barletta, Esq., Peter L. Wellington, Esq., Daniel C. Sauls, Esq.,
         Paul R. Hurst, Esq., Michael C. Drew, Esq., Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Dianne L.
         Herz, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson, and Alan C. Brown, Esq., Duane Morris, for Humana
         Military Healthcare Services, Inc., the protesters.
         Thomas  B. Smith, Esq., Thomas M. Susman, Esq., Scott A. Shepard, Esq., and Ryan
         M. Malone, Esq., Ropes & Gray; and Clayton S. Marsh, Esq., and Janice C. Forsyth,
         Esq., for Express Scripts, Inc., the intervenor.
         Lynn T. Burleson, Esq., and Kenneth S. Lieb, Esq., TRICARE Management Activity,
         Department of the Defense, for the agency.
         Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq.,
         Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         1. In negotiated procurement under which the contractor will acquire
         pharmaceuticals for Department of Defense (DoD) using DoD funds, and where
         solicitation requests offerors to propose discount rates and dispensing fees for
         pharmaceuticals in addition to their fixed prices, and provides for evaluation of
         government's projected future costs for pharmaceuticals (Total Expected
         Government  Cost (TEGC)) as a technical factor, agency reasonably assessed
         likelihood that offerors could provide pharmaceuticals at their proposed discount
         rates and dispensing fees; cost realism analysis of offerors' TEGCs was not required,
         where solicitation did not require such an analysis.

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