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B-401068.13 1 (2013-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpis0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Acc cAn tabLilty inegity Reibity 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 i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Noridian Administrative Services, LLC File: B-401068.13 Date: January 16, 2013 Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Daniel P. Graham, Esq., Kathryn Bucher, Esq., Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., and Katherine R. McDonald, Esq., Wiley, Rein LLP, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Peter J. Eyre, Esq., Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., Grant J. Book, Esq., Stephan D. Rice, Esq., Jacinta L. Alves, Esq., Derek R. Mullins, Esq., Margaret, A. Nielsen, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, and Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., and Suzanne Sumner, Esq., Taft Stettinius and Hollister LLP, for National Government Services, Inc., the intervenor. Anthony E. Marrone, Esq. and Jamie B. Insley, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's cost realism evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where agency reasonably concluded, based on the information contained in the protester's proposal and its response to discussion questions, that proposed cost/price reductions below protester's historical costs, which were to purportedly flow from protester's innovations, were already reflected in protester's historical costs since the proposed innovations had been previously implemented. DECISION Noridian Administrative Services, LLC, of Fargo, North Dakota, protests the award of a contract to National Government Services, Inc. (NGS), of Indianapolis, Indiana, under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFP-CMS-2007-0013, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to obtain Medicare administrative contractor services. The

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