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B-413204.5,B-413204.6,B-413204.7 1 (2017-10-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtyz0001 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Verisys Corporation File: B-413204.5; B-413204.6; B-413204.7 Date: October 2, 2017 David E. Fletcher, Esq., Erin M. Estevez, Esq., and Amy S. Josselyn, Cooley LLP, for the protester. Patrick Norman, Esq., Patrick Norman Attorney At Law; Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., and Gary S. Ward, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Solutions by Design II, LLC, the intervenor. Erin V. Podolny, Esq., Linda Santiago, Esq., Douglas Kornreich, Esq., and Jonathan A. Baker, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's quotation as technically unacceptable is denied where the record establishes that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest alleging the awardee had an unfair competitive advantage due to the hiring of a former government employee and conflicts of interests due to proposed subcontractors' prior work is denied where the protester fails to present sufficient facts indicating the existence of any conflicts of interest, and where the contracting officer reasonably found that no unfair competitive advantage or conflicts existed. DECISION Verisys Corporation, a small business of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the issuance of a General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) task order to Solutions by Design II, LLC (SBD), a small business of Vienna, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 161144, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), for software development and other services to establish a new version of CMS' electronic provider enrollment system. The protester challenges various aspects of the agency's evaluation process, including assertions that the agency failed to evaluate technical and price proposals in accordance with the solicitation; failed to identify and investigate an

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