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B-409358 1 (2014-03-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqed0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Medical Receivables Solution File: B-409358 Date: March 19, 2014 David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., Amy J. Spencer, Esq., and Nicole Picard, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for the protester. Scott N. Flesch, Esq., and Stephanie Magnell, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency conducted misleading and unequal discussions, because the agency accepted a price revision from the awardee following discussions, is denied where the record shows that the agency did not expressly restrict the offerors' ability to revise their price in their revised proposals. DECISION Medical Receivables Solutions, Inc. (MRS), of Vallejo, California, protests the award of a contract to Infused Solutions, LLC, of Sterling, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91YTZ-13-R-0098, issued by the Department of the Army, for medical records coding services. MRS contends that the Army's discussions were misleading and unequal because, the protester contends, the agency improperly permitted another offeror to revise its price. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on August 14, 2013, as set-aside under the Small Business Administration's section 8(a) program. The solicitation sought medical record coding services, and anticipated award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with fixed-price task orders for a base year and four 1-year options. Award was to be made to the offeror who submitted the lowest-priced technically-

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