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B-411620,B-411620.2 1 (2015-09-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrnc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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 .been approved.for public release. Matter of: DV United, LLC File: B-411620; B-411620.2 Date: September 16, 2015 Jason A. Carey, Esq., John W. Sorrenti, Esq., and Patrick J. Stanton, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for the protester. Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Pamela A. Reynolds, Esq., and Tammy Hopkins, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for NES Associates, LLC, an intervenor. Craig T. Donovan, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Young S. Lee, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that agency failed to consider whether awardee's access to certain of protester's team member's information during performance of an unrelated contract constituted an impermissible conflict of interest is denied where agency reasonably determined that information that awardee possessed as a result of the unrelated effort was not competitively useful in the task order competition. 2. Protest challenging the evaluation of key personnel is denied where the evaluation was reasonable, consistent with the solicitation, and did not rely on unstated evaluation criteria. 3. Protest challenging the evaluation of organizational experience is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the quotation did not demonstrate relevant experience performing numerous services required under the task order. DECISION DV United, LLC (DVU), a small business of Warrenton, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to NES Associates, LLC, a small business of Alexandria, Virginia, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. D15PS00015, issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI), on behalf of the Department of the Army, for information technology (IT) engineering support services. DV argues that the competition was tainted by an unmitigated organizational conflict of interest, and

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