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B-416759 1 (2018-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvip0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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: Visual Connections, LLC File: B-416759 Date: December 4, 2018 Barbara S. Kinosky, Esq., David R. Warner, Esq., Tyler J. Freiberger, Esq., and Heather B. Mims, Esq., Centre Law and Consulting, LLC, for the protester. David B. Dixon, Esq., Robert A. Starling, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Collabralink Technologies, Inc., the intervenor. Lucy G. Mac Gabhann, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is denied where the contracting officer gave meaningful consideration to whether awardee had an impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest and there is no clear evidence in the record that the agency's conclusion was unreasonable. 2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria. DECISION Visual Connections, LLC, of Milford Mill, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to CollabraLink Technologies, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. CMS-1 8-181403, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for support services for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Visual Connections contends that the awardee has organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) that HHS failed to recognize and consider in evaluating proposals. Visual Connections also challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal. We deny the protest.

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