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B-401106.5 1 (2010-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbej0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General KWn , 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: C2C Solutions, Inc. File: B-401106.5 Date: January 25, 2010 Thomas K. David, Esq., and Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., Victor G. Klingelhofer, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and Catherine K. Kroll, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for AdvanceMed Corp., an intervenor. Jamie B. Insley, Esq., and Michael Laurence, Esq., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 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 is sustained where agency failed to reasonably consider plan proposed by awardee to mitigate its impaired objectivity organizational conflicts of interest. DECISION C2C Solutions, Inc., of, Jacksonville, Florida, protests the award of a contract to AdvanceMed Corp., of Rockville, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFP-CMS-2008-0014, issued by Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for contracts in support of CMS's audit, oversight, and anti-fraud, waste and abuse efforts in two geographic zones (Zone 1 and Zone 2). C2C argues that CMS unreasonably concluded that AdvanceMed proposed an adequate strategy to mitigate its impaired objectivity organizational conflicts of interest (OCI).' We sustain the protest. 1 C2C also argues that CMS's evaluation of offerors' proposals was unreasonable due to evaluator bias. We have reviewed the bias allegation and conclude that it does not provide a basis to sustain C2C's protest.

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