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B-297342 1 (2006-01-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasmd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Alion Science & Technology Corporation File: B-297342 Date: January 9, 2006 L. James D'Agostino, Esq., Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., David T. Hickey, Esq., John G. Stafford, Esq., and Andrew Belofsky, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP; J. Scott Hommer III, Esq., and Kier X. Bancroft, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Thomas C. Papson, Esq., Jason N. Workmaster, Esq., and Kara M. Klaas, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for Advanced Engineering & Sciences, a division of ITT Industries, Inc., an intervenor. Flayo 0. Kirk, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where record does not support the agency's conclusion that awardee's conflicts of interest will be minimal, with limited impact on quality of contract performance, where awardee, a manufacturer of spectrum-dependent products, will perform analysis and evaluation and exercise subjective judgment regarding formulation of policies and regulations that may affect the sale or use of spectrum-dependent products manufactured by the awardee or the awardee's competitors, and those deployed by the awardee's customers. DECISION Alion Science & Technology Corporation protests the Defense Information System Agency's (DISA) award of a contract to Advanced Engineering & Sciences, a division of ITT Industries, Inc. (ITT), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HC1047-05-R-4018 to provide spectrum engineering support services. Alion protests that, in light of ITT's significant involvement in the manufacture and marketing of spectrum-dependent products, the agency failed to reasonably consider the extent of organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) that are likely to impair ITT's objectivity in performing the contract requirements. We sustain the protest.

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