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B-410022,B-410022.2 1 (2014-10-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqrf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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: Companion Data Services, LLC File: B-410022; B-410022.2 Date: October 9, 2014 Craig A. Holman, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., Steffen G. Jacobsen, Esq., Dana E. Peterson, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., David F. Dowd, Esq., and Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, for Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., the intervenor. Erin V. Podolny, Esq., and Anthony E. Marrone, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's challenge to its elimination from consideration for award is denied where agency reasonably evaluated protester's proposal as failing to comply with multiple solicitation requirements. 2. Protester's assertion that it was not permitted to compete for the agency's actual requirements is denied where agency's amendment of the solicitation following protester's elimination from consideration for award did not materially change the solicitation's requirements, and the changes were not related to the multiple evaluated flaws in protester's proposal. 3. Agency did not conduct discussions with offerors during oral presentations and, accordingly, was not required to conduct discussions with protester prior to eliminating its proposal from consideration for award. DECISION Companion Data Services, LLC (CDS), of Catonsville, Maryland, protests the award of a task order to Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., of Gaithersburg, Maryland, by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), pursuant to task order request for proposals (TORP) No. 140318 for infrastructure hosting and centralized connectivity services (IHCCS). CDS protests that the agency's evaluation of proposals was flawed; that CDS did not

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