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B-408642.2,B-408642.3 1 (2014-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqyo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability 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 Decision dfor release. Matter of: InfoPro, Inc. File: B-408642.2; B-408642.3 Date: December 23, 2014 Craig A. Holman, Esq., Dominique L. Casimir, Esq., and Lauren J. Schlanger, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Richard J. Webber, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., and Christopher A. Bowen, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for Unisys Corporation, an intervenor. Melissa K. Erny, Esq., and Stephen C. Edinger, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to engage in meaningful discussions with protester is denied where record shows that the contracting officer reasonably determined that discussion of the weaknesses first identified in a reevaluation of proposals would not materially enhance the proposal's potential for award. 2. Protest challenging the agency's technical and past performance evaluations is denied where record shows that the evaluations were reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 3. Protest that agency failed to give adequate consideration to awardee's potential organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) is denied, where record shows that agency extensively investigated potential OCIs and, after completing its investigation and concluding that there was a remote possibility of an OCI, reasonably concluded that awardee's mitigation would adequately avoid, neutralize, or mitigate the potential conflicts of interest with minimal impact on performance quality. 4. Cost/technical tradeoff was proper where source selection authority reasonably identified relevant technical distinctions between offerors' competing proposals and adequately documented his conclusion that the higher technically-rated, higher cost proposal represented the best value to the government.

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