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B-421405.2,B-421405.3 Aug 04, 2023 1 (2023-08-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaopba0001 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: Health Net Federal Services, LLC File: B-421405.2; B-421405.3 Date: August 4, 2023 Amy L. O'Sullivan, Esq., Robert J. Sneckenberg, Esq., Cherie J. Owen, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., William B. O'Reilly, Esq., Zachary H. Schroeder, Esq., Issac D. Schabes, Esq., and David H. Favre III, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Robert S. Ryland, Esq., H. Boyd Greene, Esq., and Ashley Pincock, Esq., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, and Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., Luke Levasseur, Esq., Cameron R. Edlefsen, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, and Robert J. Rothwell, Esq., Robert D. Vander Lugt, Esq., Amanda J. Dietrick, Esq., and Jenny J. Yang, Esq., Little, Rothwell, and Vander Lugt PLLC, for TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corporation, the intervenor. Michael R. Bibbo, Esq., Morgan Hilgendorf, Esq., Dennis A. Dyke, Esq., Jason Smith, Esq., Justin Dalton, Esq., Bradley Richardson, Esq., Erik Troff, Esq., and Song Kim, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest that agency engaged in misleading discussions by raising several weaknesses early in discussions, but failing to raise them again in subsequent rounds of discussions is denied where the record shows that the agency raised the weaknesses several times and made no representations that might lead the protester to believe they were resolved. 3. Protest that the owners of an other-than-small business may not be excluded from a small business subcontracting plan as affiliates because they cannot meet the tests for affiliation in the Small Business Administration's (SBA) regulations is denied, because the solicitation adopted the Federal Acquisition Regulation's (FAR) general definition of

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