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B-401726.3 1 (2011-04-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbxw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC REEASE 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. Decision Matter of: The Analysis Group, LLC File: B-401726.3 Date: April 18, 2011 Thomas L. McGovern III, Esq., Michael D. McGill, Esq., and Keith D. Burney, Esq., Hogan Lovells US, LLP, for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., and Michael J. Anstett, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, for Science Applications International Corporation, an intervenor. Liana D. Henry, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to give adequate consideration to awardee's potential organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) is denied, where record shows that agency extensively investigated potential OCIs and, after completing its investigation and concluding that there was a remote possibility of an OCI, properly executed a waiver of the residual OCI. 2. Protest of agency's method of evaluating price is dismissed as untimely where protester knew or should have known from reading the solicitation that agency did not intend to normalize the level of effort for all offerors. DECISION The Analysis Group, LLC (TAG), of Falls Church, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), of McLean, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. GSC-TFMG-09-32148, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to acquire--on behalf of the Department of the Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans, and Requirements, Strategic Plans and Policy Division (A5XP)--various support services in connection with A5XP's mission. TAG asserts that the agency did not adequately consider circumstances showing that SAIC may have an impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest (OCI), and then executed an improper waiver of any remaining

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