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B-292794 1 (2003-11-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacymj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General ... .Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Computers Universal, Inc. File: B-292794 Date: November 18, 2003 Peter L. Cannon for the protester. Jonathan A. Beyer, Esq., Department of Defense Dependents Schools, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee has a prohibited impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest because under the awarded contract it will be required to perform quality assurance of its own work under an existing contract is denied; since any such quality assurance will not entail a subjective evaluation of its performance under the existing contract, there is no basis for finding that awardee's objectivity will be impaired. 2. There is no basis for finding an improper personnel bait and switch by the awardee where solicitation did not require vendors to, and the awardee did not, identify specific personnel to fill positions. DECISION Computers Universal, Inc. (CUI) protests the award of a delivery order to Critel, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. MDA416-03-Q-0228, issued by the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DODDS) for an information management specialist (IMS) to support the Korea Joint Vehicle Tracking System. (KJVTS). CUI complains that Critel has a prohibited organizational conflict of interest (OCI) and engaged in an improper bait and switch, and that the agency was biased in favor of Critel. We deny the protest. The KJVTS uses cellular services, global positioning systems, databases, the Internet and other communication and tracking technologies to track vehicles and student-passengers in South Korea. The RFQ was issued for an IMS to administer

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