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B-414461.6 1 (2018-10-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvgg0001 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 Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Dell Services Federal Government, Inc. File: B-414461.6 Date: October 12, 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-Garrett, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for SRA International, Inc., an intervenor. Sara Falk, Esq., and Tracey L. Sasser, 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 that agency failed to properly execute a waiver of an organizational conflict of interest is denied where record shows that waiver was in writing, set forth the extent of the conflict, and was signed by an agency official authorized to do so. 2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of quotations and conduct of discussions is denied, in part, and dismissed, in part, where record shows either that agency's evaluation was reasonable, or that any alleged errors were not prejudicial to the protester. 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, and that the agency failed to properly execute a waiver of that OCI; the agency engaged in unequal and inadequate discussions; and the agency misevaluated quotations and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

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