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B-407720,B-407720.2 1 (2013-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpit0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accounb iliy * Intglrty * ReIiabiiity' of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AT&T Government Solutions, Inc File: B-407720; B-407720.2 Date: January 30, 2013 Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Grant J. Book, Esq., and Olivia L. Lynch, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Robert J. Symon, Esq., and Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for Jacobs Technology Inc., the intervenor. Lisa L. Baker, Esq., Major Michael C. Evans, United States Marine Corps, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of potential unequal access to information and impaired objectivity organizational conflicts of interests (OCIs) is dismissed as academic where, three days prior to our statutory 100-day deadline, the agency waived any OCI concerns under the authority granted by section 9.503 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. DECISION AT&T Government Solutions, Inc., of Oakton, Virginia, protests the award of a task order to Jacobs Technology, Inc., of Tullahoma, Tennessee, under request for proposals (RFP)l No. N00024-12-R-3282, which was issued by the Marine Corps for information technology (IT) networking support services for the Marine Corps garrison classified secret internet protocol router network (SIPRNet). AT&T argues that the agency failed to meaningfully consider whether Jacobs had organizational 1 Although the solicitation anticipated the issuance of a task order under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, the evaluation record here refers to offerors and proposals. For the sake of consistency, and because the distinction between a quotation and a proposal has no bearing on our analysis in this protest, we adopt the usage of the terms proposal and offerors in this decision.

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