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B-420857.8,B-420857.9 Aug 28, 2024 1 (2024-08-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqwf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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: Kropp Holdings, Inc. File: B-420857.8; B-420857.9 Date: August 28, 2024 Craig A. Holman, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., Roee Talmor, Esq., and Nicole Williamson, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for the protester. Todd J. Canni, Esq., Danielle A. A. Richardson, Esq., Kevin T. Barnett, Esq., Stephen E. Ruscus, Esq., Kevin N. Dorn, Esq., and Kaitlyn E. Toth, Esq., Baker & Hostetler LLP, for Associated Energy Group, LLC, the intervenor. Steven M. Sosko, Esq., Defense 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 challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's organizational conflict of interest mitigation plan is denied where the record demonstrates the agency reasonably concluded the contractor and agency-proposed measures would sufficiently mitigate potential conflicts. 2. Protest is sustained where the record fails to demonstrate the agency reasonably considered the impact of the awardee's proposed organizational conflict of interest mitigation plan on an aspect of the firm's underlying non-price proposal. 3. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals under various non-price factors is denied where the record demonstrates the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Kropp Holdings, Inc. (KHI), of Overland Park, Kansas, protests the award of a contract to Associated Energy Group, LLC (AEG), of Miami, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE608-21-R-0203, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), for aviation into-plane (AIR) Card transaction processing services. The protester challenges DLA's consideration of an impaired objectivity conflict of interest (OCI) and contends the agency unreasonably evaluated KHI's and AEG's proposals.

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