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B-420944.4 Jun 02, 2023 1 (2023-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaooyr0001 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 i / 7been approved for public release. Matter of: Sparksoft Corporation File: B-420944.4 Date: June 2, 2023 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., 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 awardee's proposal under the oral presentation and corporate experience factors is denied were the agency's evaluation, following corrective action in response to a decision by our Office sustaining an earlier protest, was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging an award decision based on the selection of a lower technically rated, lower-priced proposal over a higher technically rated, higher-priced proposal is denied where the decision was consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and where the agency reasonably explained the rationale for the award. DECISION Sparksoft Corporation, a woman-owned small business, of Columbia, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to RELI Group, Inc., a historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone) 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 Multidimensional Information Data Analytics System (MIDAS) requirement. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's and awardee's oral presentations and the awardee's corporate experience, and that the award decision was inconsistent with the solicitation's award criteria.

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