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B-415360,B-415360.2,B-415360.3 1 (2017-12-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduei0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: AdvanceMed Corporation File: B-415360; B-415360.2; B-415360.3 Date: December 19, 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 J. Kelly, Esq., David Himelfarb, Esq., Cara A. Wulf, Esq., and Matthew G. Dalton, Esq., McCarter & English, LLP, for Health Integrity, LLC, the intervenor. Lucy G. Mac Gabhann, Esq., and Linda Santiago, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency's evaluation of the offerors' proposals was unreasonable because the agency reached different evaluation conclusions in a related procurement is denied, where the procurements were conducted under different solicitations and evaluated by different evaluation teams. 2. Protest challenging the agency's technical and past performance evaluations and conduct of discussions is denied where the record shows that the evaluations and discussions were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation, or otherwise any errors were not materially prejudicial. DECISION AdvanceMed Corporation, of Reston, Virginia, protests the award of a task order to Health Integrity, LLC, of Easton, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HHSM-500-2017-RFP-0002, Medicaid Services (CMS), for Medicare and Medicaid program integrity services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals, the reasonableness and meaningfulness of discussions, and the ultimate best-value determination. We deny the protest.