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B-415062,B-415062.2 1 (2017-11-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduao0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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: AdvanceMed Corporation File: B-415062; B-415062.2 Date: November 17, 2017 Daniel P. Graham, Esq., Tyler E. Robinson, Esq., Elizabeth Krabill McIntyre, Esq., and Caroline E. Colpoys, Esq., Vinson & Elkins LLP, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., Daniel P. Wierzba, Esq., and Hart W. Wood, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Safeguard Services LLC, an intervenor. Christian Maimone, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where the solicitation stated that performance as a contractor under the procurement and as a Medicaid management information systems (MMIS) contractor in the same geographic jurisdiction was considered a conflict, and the record does not demonstrate that the agency meaningfully considered the conflict that arose due to the awardee's parent company's performance of MMIS contracts in several states in the same jurisdiction. 2. Protest challenging the awardee's proposal as technically acceptable is sustained where the acceptable rating was expressly contingent on remediation of several identified issues, and the identified issues were not remediated. DECISION AdvanceMed Corporation, of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Safeguard Services LLC, of Piano, Texas, under task order request for proposals (RFP) No. HHSM-500-2017-RFP-0044, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to conduct program integrity audit and investigation work across Medicare and Medicaid operations. The protester argues that Safeguard was ineligible for award under the express provisions of the RFP because Safeguard's parent company had an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) that the agency failed to meaningfully consider, and that Safeguard's proposal was also technically unacceptable.