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B-417237.5 1 (2021-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeclt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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 D ecisio n ;a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Coventry Healthcare Workers' Compensation, Inc. File: B-417237.5 Date: January 29, 2021 Kevin J. Cosgrove, Esq., and Bridget B. Vick, Esq., Hunton & Williams, LLP, for the protester. Jason A. Carey, Esq., Kayleigh Scalzo, Esq., J. Hunter Bennett, Esq., and Peter B. Terenzio, III, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for PMSI, LLC d/b/a Optum Workers' Compensation Services of Flordia, an intervenor. Jose Otero, Esq., Virginia K. Ackerman, Esq., and Robert Proudfoot, Esq., Department of Labor, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and ultimate source selection decision is denied where record shows that agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation and applicable statutes and regulations. DECISION Coventry Healthcare Workers' Compensation, Inc., of Downers Grove, Illinois, protests the award of a contract to PMSI, LLC d/b/a Optum Workers' Compensation Services of Florida, of Tampa, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 1605DC-18-R-00020, issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) for pharmacy benefits management services. Coventry argues that the agency misevaluated its proposal and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND This is our second occasion to consider in detail the propriety of the agency's actions in connection with this acquisition. Optum filed an earlier protest challenging the agency's award of a contract to Coventry, and we sustained that protest, finding that the agency had misevaluated the offerors' proposals and, because of that misevaluation, had made

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