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B-405306 1 (2011-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadohn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * 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 version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Valor Construction Management, LLC File: B-405306 Date: October 17, 2011 Steven L. Reed, Esq., and J. Daniel Puckett, Esq., Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, for the protester. Karen L. Mulcahy, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that award was tainted by organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the record does not support allegations that awardee's subcontractor had participated in the preparation of a report used by the agency in drafting the statement of work or that the subcontractor had access to nonpublic information that would have provided a competitive advantage. DECISION Valor Construction Management, LLC, of Pahokee, Florida, protests the award of a contract to the Ale Group, Inc., of Naples, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA-248-1 1-RP-0098, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the correction of life safety deficiencies at the VA's Miami Medical Center. Valor argues that the Ale Group should have been excluded from the competition because one of its proposed subcontractors, Strollo Architects, Inc., has an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) stemming from its prior performance on a related VA contract. The protester also challenges the agency's evaluation of the Ale Group's proposal under the technical approach factor. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The project to be awarded under the RFP here has two major components: correction of a large number of life safety deficiencies that are itemized in the solicitation, and preparation of a report identifying any life safety deficiencies that

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