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B-420599 Jun 13, 2022 1 (2022-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaongk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Geo Owl, LLC File: B-420599 Date: June 13, 2022 Shane J. McCall, Esq., Nicole D. Pottroff, Esq., John L. Holtz, Esq., Kevin B. Wickliffe, Esq., and Stephanie L. Ellis, Esq., Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC, for the protester. Darwin A. Hindman, III, Esq., and Kseniya N. Kuprovska, Esq., Baker Donelson, for Quiet Professionals, LLC, the intervenor. Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Michael P. Grogan, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to adequately investigate a potential conflict of interest arising from the awardee's alleged hiring of a former agency contracting official is denied where the protester fails to establish hard facts demonstrating that the official was ever employed by the awardee or otherwise involved in the preparation of its proposal, and the agency's investigation concluded that the official was employed by a different section of the procuring agency and had no involvement in the procurement at issue. 2. Protest of agency's technical evaluation is denied where the evaluation was reasonable, even-handed, and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria, and, even assuming that the agency committed any error, such error was not competitively prejudicial. DECISION Geo Owl, LLC, a small business of Wilmington, North Carolina, protests the issuance of a task order to Quiet Professionals, LLC (QP), a small business of Tampa, Florida, under request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. SCS22001, issued by the Department of Defense, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), for socio-cultural analysis services. The protester contends the agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable and uneven, and that SOCOM failed to adequately consider an alleged conflict of interest that provided the awardee with an unfair competitive advantage.

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