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B-409295.4,B-409295.5 1 (2015-01-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqwx0001 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 Decision dfor release. Matter of: First Coast Service Options, Inc. File: B-409295.4; B-409295.5 Date: January 8, 2015 Andrew E. Shipley, Esq., Lee P. Curtis, Esq., Seth H. Locke, Esq., and William J. Bainbridge, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for the protester. Eric J. Marcotte, Esq., Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Jacob W. Scott, Esq., and Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., Vedder Price, P.C., for Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators, LLC, the intervenor. Lucy G. Mac Gabhann, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency evaluation of the protester's proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency's assessment of the protester's proposed staffing and technical approach was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal is denied where the protester cannot demonstrate that it would have been prejudiced by the agency's actions. DECISION First Coast Service Options, Inc., of Jacksonville, Florida, protests the award of a contract to Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators, LLC, of Birmingham, Alabama, under request for proposals (RFP) No. CMS-2013-0017, which was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to obtain a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) to provide services for the administration of Medicare Part A and Part B (A/B) fee-for-service benefit claims. First Coast challenges CMS's evaluation of First Coast's and Cahaba's technical proposals, cost proposals, and past performance, and argues that the best value tradeoff and source selection decision was unreasonable.

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