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B-413116.53,B-413116.55 1 (2017-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtjj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release.----------------------------- Matter of: Octo Consulting Group, Inc. File: B-413116.53; B-413116.55 Date: May 9, 2017 David B. Dixon, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. James H. Roberts III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Roberts PLLC, for SGT, Inc., an intervenor. Douglas Kornreich, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the award decision was adequately documented, reasonable, and consistent with the solicitation's best- value award criteria. 2. Protest alleging errors in the agency's technical evaluation panel report is denied where that report was superseded by the source selection authority's independent analysis, which was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation criteria 3. Protest that the evaluation of proposals was disparate with respect to a specific awardee is denied where there is no reasonable possibility that the protester would be in line for an award, even if the protester's allegations were meritorious. DECISION Octo Consulting Group, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, protests the decision of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), not to award it a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. CMS- 2016-SPARC, for multiple indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contracts in support of the agency's Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC) program. Octo alleges that the agency's best-value tradeoff decision failed to meaningfully consider Octo's lower price versus multiple awardees, and overlooked a weakness in its tradeoff between Octo and one higher-priced offeror selected for award. Octo also alleges that the agency misevaluated or disparately evaluated its proposal.

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