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B-412866,B-412866.2 1 (2016-07-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsiz0001 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 been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Millennium Corporation, Inc. File: B-412866; B-412866.2 Date: June 14, 2016 Milton C. Johns, Esq., Fluet Huber & Hoang, PLLC, for the protester. James F. Ford, Esq., Christopher Tiroff, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Laura Eyester, Esq., and Cherie J. Owen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's best-value award decision is denied where the record shows that the source selection authority analyzed the qualitative differences between the proposals and reasonably concluded that the higher-rated, higher- priced proposal offered the best value to the government. 2. Protest that awardee had unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest is denied where record reflects that any advantage arising from awardee's prior contract performance as a subcontractor was normally occurring incumbent advantage, and the agency did not provide awardee preferential treatment. DECISION Millennium Corporation, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, a small business, protests the award of a task order to Systems Technologies, Inc. (Systek), of West Long Branch, New Jersey, also a small business, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA1 18-16-R-0909, for support services for the agency's acquisition and contracting administration office. Millennium challenges the agency's technical evaluation and best-value tradeoff decision, and contends that Systek has an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) because the awardee had unequal access to nonpublic information as a result of its status as an incumbent subcontractor. We deny the protest.

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