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B-421567,B-421567.2 Jul 05, 2023 1 (2023-07-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaooxk0001 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Federal Information Systems, Inc. File: B-421567; B-421567.2 Date: July 5, 2023 Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., Eleanor M. Ross, Esq., Timothy M. McLister, Esq., and Shirin Afsous, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for the protester. Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, PLLC, and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Dunlap, Bennett & Ludwig PLLC, for Halvik Corp., the intervenor. Erika L. Whelan-Retta, Esq., and Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency failed to give adequate consideration to awardee's potential organizational conflict of interest is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated whether the awardee had unequal access to information, and where the protester's allegations fail to present hard facts indicating the existence of a conflict. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals is sustained where the agency failed to evaluate the awardee's technical proposal consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 3. Protest challenging the agency's conduct of discussions is denied where the record provides no basis on which to conclude that discussions were not meaningful or otherwise improper. DECISION Federal Information Systems, Inc. (FIS), a small business of San Antonio, Texas, protests the issuance of a task order to Halvik Corp. (Halvik), of Vienna, Virginia, under task order request for proposals (TORFP) No. 415828, issued by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), for cybersecurity services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and resulting award decision. We sustain the protest in part, and deny it in part.

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