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B-400826.4 1 (2009-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadayv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AlL A , G A O Comptroller General ,c c ountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Healthcare Resolution Services, Inc. File: B-400826.4 Date: August 13, 2009 Andrew P. Hallowell, Esq., Pargament & Hallowell, PLLC, for the protester. Matthew C. Hoyer, Esq., Ball Janik, LLP, for Innotion Enterprises Inc., the intervenor. CPT John J. Cho, Department of the Army, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging source selection authority's (SSA) selection of lower-priced proposal based on determination that protester's and awardee's proposals were technically equal is denied where the record shows that, in reconsidering his selection of the protester's proposal for award based on proposal strengths noted by the technical evaluation panel, the SSA reasonably concluded that the strengths noted by the evaluators did not reflect a substantial difference between the proposals and did not warrant the payment of the price premium associated with the protester's proposal. DECISION HealthCare Resolution Services, Inc. (HCRS), of Laurel, Maryland, protests the award of a contract for medical records coding, coaching, auditing, and training services to Innotion Enterprises, Inc., of Bethesda, Maryland, by the Department of the Army under request for proposals (RFP) No. W81KOO-08-R-0022. HCRS essentially challenges the source selection authority's (SSA) reversal of his earlier selection of HCRS's higher-priced proposal for award. That selection decision had been based on a determination that the HCRS proposal's almost 11-percent price premium was warranted by the slightly higher evaluation rating for three proposal strengths identified by the technical evaluation panel (TEP). HCRS contends that the SSA's new source selection decision is unreasonable and inconsistent with the RFP's terms.

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