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B-408175.4 1 (2013-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqaw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, Inc. File: B-408175.4 Date: December 30, 2013 Albert B. Krachman, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. Lee Dougherty, Esq., Katherine A. Straw, Esq., Fluet Huber & Hoang PLLC, for ADDX Corporation, an intervenor. Krishon Gill-Edmond, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where the record includes no evidence linking employees of awardee's subcontractor to abuses identified in agency Inspector General report, the agency acted reasonably in not considering the Inspector General report as adverse information in the offeror's evaluation. 2. Agency reasonably found no unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest, despite protester's allegations regarding the self-promotional activities of employees of awardee's subcontractor who previously performed similar requirement, where there was no indication in the record that the awardee gained any competitive advantage from access to information that was not available to all offerors. DECISION TISTA Science and Technology Corporation (TISTA) protests the Department of Veteran Affairs' (VA) award to ADDX Corporation (ADDX) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA798-13-Q-0012 for program management support services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its and ADDX's quotations and asserts that ADDX should be ineligible for award due to an organizational conflict of interest (OCI). We deny the protest.

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