Link: 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 contractor with respect to the Medicaid program would pose an
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Disposition: Protest sustained. Keywords: Organizational conflict of interest; Mitigation strategy General Counsel, P.C. Highlight: Organizational conflicts of interest issues are, like responsibility issues, matters that can be resolved after evaluation and an award selection. They can be matters for rational negotiation, but will not trigger
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Where performance of more than one-third of the contract requirements created a conflict of interest for the protester, agency reasonably rejected protester’s final revised proposal that, for the first time, offered to perform the conflicted requirements by relying on