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B-418106 1 (2020-01-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeank0001 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. The entire decision has now 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Nuance Communications, Inc. File: B-418106 Date: January 8, 2020 William V. Roppolo, Esq., Baker McKenzie LLP, for the protester. David R. Hazelton, Esq., Dean W. Baxtresser, Esq., and Joshua J. Craddock, Esq., Latham & Watkins LLP, for Cerner Government Services, Inc., the intervenor. Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., and Kerry A. McGrath, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest asserting that task order requirements are beyond the scope of the underlying indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is denied, where the performance work statement for the underlying contract clearly encompassed the specific task order requirements and effectively advised offerors of the potential for the task order to be issued. DECISION Nuance Communications, Inc., of Burlington, Massachusetts, protests the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) issuance of a task order to Cerner Government Services, Inc., pursuant to indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract No. 3610B18D5000 that was awarded to Cerner in May 2018 for delivery of a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system. Nuance asserts that the activities to be performed under the task order are beyond the scope of the IDIQ contract. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The VA and the Department of Defense (DOD) provide medical services to an overlapping patient population of service members and veterans; yet, each agency operates a separate EHR system. The two agencies have been attempting for several

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