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B-401198,B-401198.2 1 (2009-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadawp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 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. Decision Matter of: Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Inc. File: B-401198; B-401198.2 Date: June 2, 2009 William W. Thompson, Jr., Esq., Michael A. Branca, Esq., and Lori Ann Lange, Esq., Peckar & Abramson, PC, and Linda T. Maramba, Esq., Northrup Grumman Information Technology, Inc., for the protester. Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., John R. Prairie, Esq., and Heidi L. Bourgeios, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for CGI Federal, Inc., an intervenor. Christine Simpson, Esq., Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably found that awardee's proposal complied with solicitation provision calling for nearby performance facility, even though it proposed to have only management personnel at that facility, where solicitation only required management--not all--personnel to be located at nearby facility. DECISION Northrup Grumman Information Technology, Inc. (NGIT), of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to CGI Federal, Inc., of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 8023, issued by the Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), for Medicare Advantage and Part D (MAPD) maintenance. Competition was restricted to prior awardees under contract No. HHSM-500-2007-00141, a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract. NGIT asserts that the agency improperly evaluated the proposals. We deny the protest. The RFP sought proposals for information technology systems maintenance services, including enhancements, software changes, fixes, data cleanups, and special projects, in support of three MAPD subsystems--Medicare Advantage Prescription System (MARx), Premium Withhold System (PWS), and Medicare Beneficiary Database (MBD). The three systems currently are maintained by three

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