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B-414461.3,B-414461.4,B-414461.5 1 (2018-06-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduuu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE I The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Dell Services Federal Government, Inc. File: B-414461.3; B-414461.4; B-414461.5 Date: June 19, 2018 Kevin J. Maynard, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Gary S. Ward, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and Sarah B. Hansen, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Mark D. Colley, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., Sonia Tabriz, Esq., and Alexandra L. Barbee-Garett, Esq., Arnold Porter Kaye Scholer LLP; and Edward C. Reddington, Esq., William & Connolly, LLP. for SRA International, Inc., an intervenor. Sara Falk, Esq., and Jose Otero, 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 Protest alleging that awardee has an impermissible unequal access type of organizational conflict of interest is sustained where record shows that an individual participating in the preparation of awardee's proposal had access to competitively useful, non-public information about the protester under another contract. DECISION Dell Services Federal Government, Inc. (DSFG), of Herndon, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to SRA International, of Chantilly, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. ED-CIO-17-Q-0002, issued by the Department of Education for information technology (IT) products and services. DSFG argues that SRA has an impermissible organizational conflict of interest (OCI) that should have precluded award to the firm; the agency engaged in unequal and inadequate discussions; and the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The agency currently obtains its information technology requirements under a contract called the Education Department's utility for communications, applications and technology environment (EDUCATE) contract. This is a comprehensive contract to

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