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B-420944.2,B-420944.3 Dec 27, 2022 1 (2022-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaoodw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 D V V been approved for public release. Matter of: Sparksoft Corporation File: B-420944.2; B-420944.3 Date: December 27, 2022 David B. Dixon, Esq., Toghrul Shukurlu, Esq., and Robert Starling, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. John R. Prairie, Esq., J. Ryan Frazee, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and Lisa M. Rechden, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for RELI Group, Inc., the intervenor. Ethan S. Chae, Esq., William Shim, Esq., David Lank, Esq., and Douglas Kornreich, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the evaluation of the protester's oral presentation is denied were the agency considered an evaluation criterion that, although not specifically identified in the solicitation, was reasonably related to the stated criteria. Protest challenging the evaluation of the awardee's oral presentation is sustained where the agency relied on unsupported assumptions regarding the awardee's proposed technical approach. 2. Protest challenging the evaluation of the awardee's corporate experience is sustained where the evaluation relied on unsupported assumptions regarding the awardee's ability to overcome a lack of relevant experience. 3. Protest challenging the award decision is sustained where the award decision was based in part on conclusions regarding differences between the protester's and awardee's proposals under the corporate experience factor that were not consistent with the solicitation's award criteria and that relied on unsupported assumptions. DECISION Sparksoft Corporation, a small business, of Columbia, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to RELI Group, Inc., a small business, of Catonsville, Maryland, by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The agency issued the task order under task order request for proposal (TORP) No. RFP-CMS-220988, for the performance of the agency's

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