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B-421165,B-421165.2 Dec 29, 2022 1 (2022-12-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaoodg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: Next Phase Solutions and Services, Inc. File: B-421165; B-421165.2 Date: December 29, 2022 Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for the protester. Damien C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Krista A. Nunez, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for Index Analytics, LLC, the intervenor. Ethan S. Chae, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, 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 Where solicitation sought quotations for modernization and migration of an agency information technology system to the cloud; included a statement of objectives (SOO) that, among other things, provided for post-award analysis of alternative solutions; and stated that quotations should address all work to be performed under the SOO, the plain language of the solicitation is contrary to the protester's assertion that the solicitation did not contemplate inclusion of alternative solution analysis in quotations and precluded the recommendation of a specific solution. DECISION Next Phase Solutions and Services, Inc., of Columbia, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to Index Analytics, LLC, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. CMS-2022-220829, to modernize and migrate CMS's Open Payment System (OPS) to the cloud.1 Next Phase challenges the agency's evaluation 1 The OPS supports the Open Payment Program (OPP), which was created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 and is a statutorily required, national disclosure program that promotes transparency and accountability by making information about the financial relationships between Reporting Entities and Covered Recipients available to the public. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFQ at 305. (All page

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