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B-294059 1 (2004-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapnj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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. Decision Matter of: CliniComp, International File: B-294059; B-294059.2 Date: July 26, 2004 L. James D'Agostino, Esq., Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., David T. Hickey, Esq., and Natalia W. Geren, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, for the protester. Judith A. Bonner, Esq., General Services Administtration, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that its proposal was improperly excluded from the competitive range is denied where the decision to exclude the proposal from further consideration was based on findings that the proposal was technically unacceptable, and where the protester has not shown that those findings were unreasonable or inconsistent with stated evaluation criteria. DECISION CliniComp, International (CCI) protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS03T03R0022, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for commercial off-the-shelf pharmacy software (abbreviated in the record as RxCOTS) for the Department of Defense's (DOD) TRICARE Management Activity, with separate options for purchase by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the United States Coast Guard. CCI argues that its exclusion from the competitive range was improper because the agency reached unreasonable conclusions about several technical issues, misevaluated its past performance, and gave an unfair competitive advantage to a company that had participated in an earlier feasibility study. We deny the protest. The RFP here was issued on November 12, 2003, and sought offers of commercial off-the-shelf software to be integrated with an existing TRICARE medical software system called the Composite Health Care System II (CHCS II), which currently provides pharmacy capabilities for DOD. DOD and GSA anticipate that the RxCOTS

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