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Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) Archive
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Pragmatics Inc., B-407320.2; B-407320.3, March 26, 2013
Posted on April 10, 2013 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Pragmatics Inc., based on the issuance of a task order to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under... -
Harmonia Holdings, LLC, B-407186.2; B-407186.3, March 5, 2013
Posted on March 20, 2013 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Social Security Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of Harmonia Holdings, LLC, a small business, based on the terms of a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA), for geographic information... -
American Technical Services, Inc., B-407168, B-407168.2, November 21, 2012
Posted on January 9, 2013 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: American Technical Services, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that the agency performed an unreasonable cost realism analysis is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably relied on indirect cost rate data that was provided by... -
General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc., B-407069, B-407069.2, November 1, 2012
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Contracting officer’s determination that there was no organizational conflict of interest that would preclude an award to the awardee... -
North Wind, Inc., B-404880.7, November 5, 2012
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: North Wind, Inc. Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that an offeror had an immitigable unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest that should have disqualified it from the competition is denied, where... -
Science Applications International Corporation, B-406899, September 26, 2012
Posted on October 31, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Science Applications International Corporation Agency: Department of Commerce Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of an agency’s organizational conflict of interest (OCI) determination is denied where agency reasonably investigated protester’s and awardee’s possible OCI and the protester does not show... -
Science Applications International Corporation, B-406921, B-406921.2, October 1, 2012
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Science Applications International Corporation Agency: Defense Information Systems Agency Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s evaluation of awardee’s technical risk is denied where the record shows that the agency performed a reasonable evaluation of risk in accordance with... -
Oklahoma State University, B-406865, September 12, 2012
Posted on October 10, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Oklahoma State University Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Dismissed in Part; Denied in Part. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of price evaluation is denied where the record indicates that the agency performed a reasonable analysis of offerors’ prices. Where... -
Guident Technologies, Inc., B-405112.3, June 4, 2012
Posted on June 20, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Guident Technologies, Inc. Agency: Defense Information Systems Agency Disposition: Protest Denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that awardee had an unmitigated impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest was timely filed after the agency selected the awardee for award, notwithstanding the fact that... -
Cognosante, LLC, B-405868, January 5, 2012
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Cognosante, LLC Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest Denied. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest against exclusion of protester from the competition is denied where contracting officer reasonably determined that protester’s dual role as both a state and federal audit...
