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B-401652 1 (2009-10-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbbb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller 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: Health Net Federal Services, LLC File: B-401652 Date: October 13, 2009 Thomas P. Humphrey, Esq., Marc F. Efron, Esq., David Z. Bodenheimer, Esq., Shauna E. Alonge, Esq., J. Catherine Kunz, Esq., John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., Peter J. Eyre, Esq., Puja Satiani, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., Andrew Dockham, Esq., and Sujata Sidhu, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. David R. Hazelton, Esq., Roger S. Goldman, Esq., Eric J. McCarthy, Esq., Kyle R. Jefcoat, Esq., Benjamin Wei, Esq., and Anne W. Robinson, Esq., Latham & Watkins LLP, for Aetna Government Health Plans, the intervenor. Gerald A. Wesley, Esq., Hattie Russell DuBois, Esq., Michael E. Jonasson, Esq., and Rhonda L. Bershok, Esq., Office of TRICARE Management Activity, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that disclosure of protester's initial proposed total price resulted in an unfair competition is denied where record does not demonstrate that protester was competitively harmed. DECISION Health Net Federal Services, LLC of Rancho Cordova, California, protests the award of a contract to Aetna Government Health Plans, LLC (AGHP) of Hartford, Connecticut, under request for proposals (RFP) No. H94002-07-R-0007, issued by the Department of Defense TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) for T-3 TRICARE managed health care support services for the North Region. Health Net contends that the agency failed to properly consider and investigate a substantial and material procurement integrity violation by the Department of Defense (DOD) which tainted the integrity of the procurement and the award to AGHP. Protest at 2. We deny the protest. By way of background, TMA issued the RFP on March 24, 2008 for the purpose of awarding separate contracts to provide managed health care support for eligible beneficiaries in the Department of Defense TRICARE program for three regions:

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