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B-298962 1 (2007-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaucj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision .approved for public release. Matter of. Palmetto GBA, LLC File: B-298962; B-298962.2 Date: January 16, 2007 W. Jay DeVecchio, Esq., Kevin C. Dwyer, Esq., Edward Jackson, Esq., and Sharmila Sohoni, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP for the protester. Craig A. Holman, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., and David J. Craig, Esq., Holland & Knight, LLP, for CIGNA Government Services, LLC, an intervenor. Jeffri Pierre, Esq., and Anthony Marrone, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's cost realism and technical evaluations is denied where the record supports the reasonableness of the agency's determinations. 2. Protest that agency was required to amend solicitation to include performance of optional/specialty services is denied where solicitation did not require offerors to submit proposals for such services and the agency had not yet determined how the optional/specialty services will be obtained. DECISION Palmetto GBA, LLC protests the award of a contract to CIGNA Government Services, LLC, by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), under request for proposals (RFP) No. CMS-2005-0012 to provide Medicare claims processing and services related to claims for suppliers and beneficiaries of durable medical equipment. Palmetto challenges the agency's cost realism and technical evaluations, and further argues that the agency was required to amend the solicitation to include what Palmetto asserts are changed requirements. We deny the protest.

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