Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Threat Management Group (TMG) based on the award of a contract to R3 Strategic Support Group, Inc., under a request for proposals, issued by the Department of the Air Force for explosive ordnance disposal
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Agency for International Development Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Pillar Systems Corporation based on the award of a contract to Highlight Technologies, under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the United States Agency for International Development (AID), for system support services
Link: 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 a request for proposals (RFP) for National Ground Intelligence Center
Link: 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 system (GIS) services to support the SSA’s emergency preparedness mission.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Marine Corps Disposition: Protest dismissed. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO dismissed the protest of AT&T Government Solutions, Inc., regarding the award of a task order to Jacobs Technology, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP), which was issued by the Marine Corps for information technology (IT) networking support services
Link: 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 the protester specifically for cost analysis purposes. Protest that the
Link: 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 was reasonable where the contracting officer reasonably investigated to see
Link: 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 the agency reasonably concluded that the offeror’s performance of a
Link: 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 that the agency’s judgment is unreasonable. Protest of an agency’s
Link: 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 the solicitation’s evaluation criteria. Protest challenging agency’s evaluation of awardee’s
Link: 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 agency conducted discussions with both protester and awardee, identifying specific
Link: 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 the protester knew, prior to award, that the awardee was
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 Decision Protestor: Organizational Strategies, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that awardee’s subcontractor had an unmitigated unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest is denied where (1) protester fails to furnish evidence supporting its allegation that awardee’s subcontractor had access to protester’s sensitive company information
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: NikSoft Systems Corp. Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest Sustained. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Digest: 1. Agency request that protest be dismissed on the basis that the protester is not an interested party due to an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied, where the agency has not shown its OCI determination is based
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest challenging agency’s cost realism evaluation of protester’s proposal is denied where the record demonstrates that agency’s conclusions were reasonable. 2. Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated offerors’ technical proposals is denied where
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: McTech Corporation Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably concluded that the protester had an organizational conflict of interest and properly eliminated it from the competition under a solicitation for the award of a construction contract, where the agency found that the close relationship between
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest sustained. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Where agency allowed successful vendor to make material revision that made its quotation acceptable, but did not provide protester similar opportunity to revise its quotation, agency improperly engaged in discussions only with successful vendor, and protest on that ground is sustained.
Link: GAO Decision Protestors: TriCenturion, Inc.; SafeGuard Services, LLC Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Disposition: Protest Sustained in part, Denied in part. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Challenge to the cost realism evaluation of the awardee’s proposed labor costs is sustained where the record does not demonstrate that
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: IBM Global Business Services Agency: Department of the Army, U.S. Special Operations Command Disposition: Protest Sustained. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that agency evaluated proposals using an unstated evaluation consideration is sustained where record shows that agency gave awardee (but not protester) evaluation credit for proposing to achieve full operating capability
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest denied. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that the award was tainted by organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably concluded that the potential areas of concern either did not constitute significant conflicts that warranted disqualification of
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: Clarifications; Discussions; Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Clarifications are “limited exchanges” between an agency and an offeror for the purpose of eliminating minor uncertainties or irregularities in a proposal, and do not give an offeror the opportunity to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Organizational Conflict of Interest; OCI General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Where an individual obtains non-public, competitively useful information in connection with a private employment or consulting agreement, an allegation that the information subsequently was shared with a competitor is a dispute between two private
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) General Counsel P.C. Highlight: An “impaired objectivity” OCI situation exists where, because of the nature of a firm’s actual or potential work under one contract, it may be unable to provide objective judgments to the government in performing under
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: Clarifications; Discussions; Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Clarifications are “limited exchanges” between an agency and an offeror for the purpose of eliminating minor uncertainties or irregularities in a proposal, and do not give an offeror the opportunity to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: Organizational Conflict of Interest General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The responsibility for determining whether an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) exists rests with the procuring agency. In making this determination, the FAR expressly directs contracting officers to examine the particular facts associated with each
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Central Intelligence Agency Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Corrective Action; Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Where a procurement decision–such as whether an OCI should be waived–is committed by statute or regulation to the discretion of agency officials, the GAO will not make an independent determination of the matter but
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: OCI; conflict of Interest General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The FAR requires contracting officials to avoid, neutralize or mitigate potential significant OCIs so as to prevent an unfair competitive advantage or the existence of conflicting roles that might impair a contractor’s objectivity. —————————————————————————————————————————– ITT Corporation
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: Corrective Action; OCI General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Where an agency conducts exchanges with an offeror regarding the offeror’s plan to mitigate identified conflicts of interest, such exchanges do not constitute discussions. C2C Solutions, Inc. (C2C) protests the corrective action being taken by
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: OCI; Organizational Conflicts of Interest General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Contracting officials must avoid, neutralize or mitigate potential significant OCIs so as to prevent unfair competitive advantage or the existence of conflicting roles that might impair a contractor’s objectivity and an unequal access to information OCI
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest sustained in part and denied in part. Keywords: Organizational conflict of interest General Counsel P.C. Highlight: It is the Agency’s responsibility to consider and, where appropriate, take efforts to mitigate every actual or perceived organizational conflict of interest. —————————————————————————————————————————– The Department of the Army, Corps
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 Agencies: U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest sustained. Keywords: Discussions; OCI —————————————————————————————————————————– An RFQ was issued by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) as a negotiated “best value” acquisition, specifying that a task order would be issued under the successful vendor’s Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest denied. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protester’s assertions that agency improperly rated its proposal “Marginal” with regard to non-cost/price evaluation factors constitutes mere disagreement with the agency’s judgment and does not provide a basis for sustaining the protest. 2. Protest based on an alleged
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest sustained in part, denied in part. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that agency unreasonably determined that the awardee did not have a “biased ground rules” organizational conflict of interest is sustained where the record shows that the awardee’s subcontractor provided procurement development services that