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B-419487.2,B-419487.3 Aug 06, 2021 1 (2021-08-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaomce0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: MAXIMUS Federal Services, Inc. File: B-419487.2; B-419487.3 Date: August 6, 2021 Brian A. Darst, Esq., Odin Feldman Pittleman PC, for the protester. Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Cognosante, LLC, the intervenor. Dorothy M. Guy, Esq., Brandon Dell'Aglio, Esq., and Jonathan Meyer, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Michael P. Grogan, Esq., Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the agency unreasonably evaluated proposals is denied where the record shows the evaluation and award decision were reasonable and in accordance with the stated evaluation criteria, and, to the extent there were any errors, the protester cannot establish any reasonable possibility of competitive prejudice. 2. Protest alleging that the agency did not conduct meaningful discussions regarding the protester's key personnel is denied where the agency was under no obligation to raise its concerns with the protester because the identified concerns were not evaluated as a significant weakness, deficiency, or adverse past performance information that the protester had not previously had an opportunity to address. 3. Protest challenging the agency's cost realism evaluation is denied where the record shows that the upward adjustments to protester's proposed costs were reasonable. DECISION Maximus Federal Services, Inc., of Falls Church, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Cognosante, LLC, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 283213-21-R- 00000001, issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA), for program management services for the agency's Ticket-to-Work program. The protester contends that the agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable and inconsistent with the stated evaluation criteria. We deny the protest.

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