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B-296489 1 (2005-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqxr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Digital Healthcare, Inc. File: B-296489 Date: August 24, 2005 Hilary S. Cairnie, Esq., Melissa M. Nichols, Esq., and Adrien C. Pickard, Esq., Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, LLP, for the protester. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Dennis Foley, Esq., and Philip Kauffman, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Allegation that agency misappropriated information contained in protester's unsolicited proposal and developed specifications based on that information is denied where protester has not met its burden of showing proprietary nature of information allegedly misappropriated. DECISION Digital Healthcare, Inc. protests the issuance of request for proposals (RFP) No. 500- 20-05, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the acquisition of insurance identification services. Digital complains that the agency improperly used proprietary information contained in its unsolicited proposal in the current solicitation. We deny the protest. In June 2003, Digital submitted an unsolicited contract proposal to each of the federally funded health plan providers, including the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) indicating that it was the sole licensee of various intellectual properties governing the automation of the coordination of benefits (COB) among health plans, and other related procedures in the healthcare finance area. Unsolicited Proposal at 2. Digital stated that it was therefore uniquely situated to address VHA's need to identify and bill other sources of insurance coverage for VHA patients. Digital stated that its proposal differed from other approaches to the problem in that other vendors propose to poll a small number of local payers and that the proposal to poll only a

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