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B-292780,B-292780.2,B-292780.3,B-292780.4,B-292780.5,B-292780.6 1 (2003-12-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyqg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General . . Accountability * 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: Sierra Military Health Services, Inc.; Aetna Government Health Plans File: B-292780; B-292780.2; B-292780.3; B-292780.4; B-292780.5; B-292780.6 Date: December 5, 2003 Thomas Wheeler, Esq., Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., Eliza P. Nagle, Esq., David E. Fletcher, Esq., and Cathy A. Hinger, Esq., Piper Rudnick, and Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Dorthula Powell-Woodson, Esq., Phillip H. Harrington, Esq., and Janet L. Eichers, Esq., Wiley Rein & Fielding, for Sierra Military Health Services, Inc., and David R. Hazelton, Esq., Roger S. Goldman, Esq., C. Thomas Powell, Esq., and Leslie E. Dupuy, Esq., Latham & Watkins, and Steven A. Tolliver, Esq., for Aetna Government Health Plans, the protesters. Thomas P. Humphrey, III, Esq., Robert M. Halperin, Esq., Elizabeth W. Newsom, Esq., Amy E. Laderberg, Esq., J. Chris Haile, Esq., J. Catherine Kunz, Esq., and Heather H. Hormel, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for Health Net Federal Services, Inc., an intervenor. Kenneth Lieb, Esq., and Rhonda Bershok, Esq., TRICARE Management Activity, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's communications with awardee during oral presentation did not constitute discussions, and agency thus was not required to conduct discussions with and request revised proposals from all offerors in the competitive range, where information furnished by awardee (with respect to staffing of effort to develop health care network) in response to agency questions after oral presentation was merely a clarification of information previously furnished by awardee in the presentation slides and accompanying oral presentation of slides. DECISION Sierra Military Health Services, Inc. and Aetna Government Health Plans (AGHP) protest the TRICARE Management Activity's (TMA) award of a contract (No. MDA906-03-C-0011) to Health Net Federal Services, Inc. (HNFS), under request for proposals (RFP) No. MDA906-02-R-0006, for the purpose of obtaining managed care support services for the North Region of the United States. The protesters

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