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B-414373.3 1 (2018-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadugo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision 1The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: AdvanceMed Corporation File: B-414373.3 Date: January 10, 2018 Daniel P. Graham, Esq., Tyler E. Robinson, Esq., Elizabeth Krabill McIntyre, Esq., and Caroline E. Colpoys, Esq., Vinson & Elkins LLP, for the protester. Daniel J. Kelly, Esq., David Himelfarb, Esq., Cara A. Wulf, Esq., and Matthew G. Dalton, Esq., McCarter & English, LLP, for Health Integrity, LLC, the intervenor. Christian P. Maimone, Esq., and Linda Santiago, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency unreasonably ignored likely costs stemming from the awardee's proposed technical approach is denied where the agency's cost evaluation reasonably considered the awardee's proposed technical approach and level of effort, and where the protester fails to demonstrate competitive prejudice with respect to any unaddressed adjustments. DECISION AdvanceMed Corporation, of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Health Integrity, LLC, of Easton, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HHSM-500-2016-RFP-0027, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), for Medicare and Medicaid program integrity services. The protester challenges the agency's cost realism evaluation of Health Integrity's proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on July 13, 2016, to contractors holding one of CMS's Unified Program Integrity Contract (UPIC) indefinite-delivery, indefinite- quantity (IDIQ) contracts. The solicitation sought proposals to support the agency's

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