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B-414461,B-414461.2 1 (2017-06-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Dell Services Federal Government, Inc. File: B-414461 ; B-414461.2 Date: June 21, 2017 Kevin J. Maynard, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., and Cara L. Lasley, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Carl J. Peckinpaugh, Esq., and Brian F. Wilbourn, Esq., for SRA International, Inc., an intervenor. Jose Otero, Esq., and Sara Falk, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's conclusion that possible Procurement Integrity Act violation will have no impact in connection with the conduct of an ongoing acquisition is sustained where record shows that agency's conclusion failed to take several material considerations into account. 2. Protest that a prospective offeror has either an unequal access to information or a biased ground rules organizational conflict of interest is sustained where record shows that the firm had access to nonpublic, competitively useful information, and also shows that the individual supplying that information may have participated in developing the agency's requirements for the current acquisition, and the agency has neither meaningfully evaluated whether an organizational conflict of interest exists, nor taken steps to avoid, neutralize or mitigate any such potential conflict. DECISION Dell Services Federal Government, Inc. (DSFG), of Herndon, Virginia, protests the actions of the Department of Education in connection with request for quotations (RFQ) No. ED-CIO-17-Q-0002, issued to acquire information technology (IT) services. DSFG maintains that the agency failed adequately to investigate and evaluate an apparent violation of the Procurement Integrity Act and also failed adequately to investigate and evaluate organizational conflicts of interest on the part of SRA International, Inc., of Falls Church, Virginia, another concern interested in participating in the agency's acquisition under the subject solicitation.

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