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B-403054.2 1 (2011-02-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbsc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: iL G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Unisys Corporation File: B-403054.2 Date: February 8, 2011 Richard J. Webber, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, and E. Charles Rowan, Esq., for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., Michael J. Anstett, Esq., and Brian M. Stanford, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for Science Applications International Corporation, the intervenor. Stephanie A. Kreis, Esq., Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Edward T. Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that awardee's use of a former government employee in the preparation of its proposal provided the firm with an unfair competitive advantage due to the employee's access to proprietary information of the protester is denied where the record reflects that the information at issue was not competitively useful. DECISION Unisys Corporation, of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), of Alexandria, Virginia, by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO), under request for proposals (RFP) No. E200257.00 for data center operations and technical support activities. The protester argues that SAIC's use of a former government employee in the preparation of its proposal lent the firm an unfair competitive advantage and that the same former government employee committed a procurement integrity violation. 1 We previously dismissed the protester's price realism challenge for failure to state a valid basis of protest. See Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.1(c)(4) and (f) (2010). It was not clear that the agency was required to perform a price realism evaluation, and, even if it was, the protester unreasonably speculated that the (continued...)

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