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  G     A     O    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
                                          been approved for public release.


Matter of:  CORMAC Corporation

File:     B-421532; B-421532.2

Date:       June  14, 2023

William T. Welch, Esq., and Orest Jowyk, Esq., Reston Law Group, LLP, for the
protester.
Devon  E Hewitt, Esq., Potomac Law Group, LLC, for Explore Digits, Inc., the intervenor.
Pamela  Waldron, Esq., and Ethan Chae, Esq., Department of Health and Human
Services, for the agency.
Emily R. O'Hara, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation of the protester's quotation is
denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's
responses to oral presentation questions.
DECISION

CORMAC Corporation,   of Leesburg, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to
Explore Digits, Inc., of Silver Spring, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ)
No. 230390, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for legacy systems information technology (IT)
modernization and maintenance services. The protester contends that the agency's
evaluation of the protester's oral presentation was unreasonable.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The agency  issued the solicitation on December 21, 2022, pursuant to General Services
Administration's (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procedures set forth in Federal
Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFQ at 1,167.1


1 References to page numbers of documents are to the Adobe PDF pagination.

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