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B-415262,B-415262.2 1 (2017-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadudc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Arch Systems, LLC; KEN Consulting, Inc. File: B-415262; B-415262.2 Date: December 12, 2017 Andrew J. Mohr, Esq., Catherine K. Kroll, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and Daniel Strouse, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for Arch Systems, LLC; and Ira E. Hoffman, Esq., Butzel Long, PC, for KEN Consulting, Inc., the protesters. Christopher R. Shiplett, Esq., Randolph Law, PLLC, for Capitol Bridge, LLC, the intervenor. Erin V. Podolny, Esq., and Douglas Kornreich, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protests challenging the agency's decision not to allow offerors to make oral presentations are denied where the agency reasonably interpreted the solicitation as not requiring such presentations. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the realism of the awardee's proposed price is denied where the agency's realism analysis reasonably assessed whether the awardee's proposed price was consistent with its proposed technical approach and where the solicitation did not require offerors to submit the type of information the protester contends should have been evaluated. 3. Protest alleging that the difference between the offerors' proposed prices shows that they were not competing on a common basis is denied where the protester does not identify any solicitation provisions which are vague or misleading. DECISION Arch Systems, LLC, of Baltimore, Maryland, and KEN Consulting, Inc., of Silver Spring, Maryland, protest the award of a contract to Capitol Bridge, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. CMS-2016-8A-0008, which was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for workers' compensation review support services. The protesters

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