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B-419539,B-419539.2 Apr 28, 2021 1 (2021-04-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaoluz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo( U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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: CGS Administrators, LLC File: B-419539; B-419539.2 Date: April 28, 2021 Craig A. Holman, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., and Nathaniel E. Castellano, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, for the protester. Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Kathryn Bucher, Esq., Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., Lindy C. Bathurst, Esq., Adam R. Briscoe, Esq., and Jennifer Eve Retener, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Douglas W. Kornreich, Esq., Pamela Waldron, Esq., and Martin McEnrue, Esq., Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's cost realism evaluation is denied where the record shows that the upward adjustments to protester's proposed costs were reasonable. 2. Protest alleging that the agency did not conduct meaningful discussions is denied where record shows that the agency's discussions questions led the protester into the area of its proposal that required revision. 3. Protest that awardee had impermissible impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest is denied where record shows that agency meaningfully considered the potential for a conflict and reasonably concluded that a conflict did not exist. 4. Protest that agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated technical approach and past performance is denied where record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation, and any differences in the evaluation arose from differences in proposals. 5. Protest that best-value determination was flawed is denied where record shows that it was reasonable, supported by the record, and consistent with the solicitation.

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