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B-418005 1 (2019-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeazc0001 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 1been approved for public release. Matter of: RELI Group, Inc. File: B-418005 Date: December 23, 2019 Edward T. DeLisle, Esq., and Andres M. Vera, Esq., Offit Kurman, for the protester. Linda A. Santiago, Esq., and Douglas W. Kornreich, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Evan C. Williams, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency conducted improper price realism analysis of awardee's proposal is denied where the protester provides no basis to conclude that the price realism analysis was unreasonable or inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the agency looked beyond the adjectival ratings to conclude that the protester's proposal was essentially equal to the awardee's proposal under the non-price evaluation factors, and therefore reasonably made award to the lower-priced offeror. DECISION RELI Group, Inc., an 8(a) small business of Catonsville, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Fed Pro Services, LLC, of Canton, Mississippi, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 75FCMC19R0037, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), for services to support the End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program (ESRD QIP).1 RELI contends that the agency unreasonably evaluated the realism of the awardee's proposed price, and made a flawed best-value decision. 1 The ESRD QIP is a federal program where providers are paid based on the quality of care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries. RFP, Statement of Work (SOW), at 1. Each year, the ESRD QIP calculates performance measure scores for providers based upon data received from a variety of sources. Id.

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