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B-414822.5 1 (2017-10-13)

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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
Decision                                       been approved for public release.


Matter of:   Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

File:        B-414822.5

Date:     October 13, 2017

Kara M. Sacilotto, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Craig Smith, Esq., Moshe B.
Broder, Esq., and Colin J. Cloherty, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester.
Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., David S. Black, Esq., Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., and
Rodney M. Perry, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Raytheon Company, the intervenor.
Andrew Sinn, Esq., and Jaron Chriss, Esq., General Services Administration, for the
agency.
Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's corrective action in response to an earlier protest is
dismissed where the corrective action rendered the earlier protest academic and where
the challenge is otherwise premature.
DECISION

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH), of McLean, Virginia, challenges the terms of the
corrective action undertaken by the General Services Administration (GSA) in response
to BAH's protest (B-414822, B-414822.2, B-414822.3) of the issuance of a task order to
Raytheon Intelligence, Information & Services, of Dulles, Virginia, under solicitation
No. ID04160057 for services in support of the Army Research, Development and
Engineering Command, Software Engineering Directorate. The protester contends that
the agency's corrective action does not commit the agency to correct any alleged errors
in the prior evaluation or award decision.

We dismiss the protest because it fails to state a valid basis and is otherwise premature.

BAH filed its initial protest on June 19, 2017, arguing that the award to Raytheon was
improper; the protester also filed two supplemental protests. The protester raised the
following three primary arguments: (1) Raytheon had an unmitigatable impaired
objectivity organizational conflict of interest (OCI) that should have disqualified it from

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