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G A O Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washigton DC 0548DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Washington, DC 20548
The decision issued on the date below was subject to
a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
Decisin been approvedforpublic release.
Matter of: A Squared Joint Venture
File: B-413139; B-413139.2
Date: August 23, 2016
Joseph P. Dirik, Esq., Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, for the protester.
D. Evelyn Lyon, Esq., and Jerry L. Seemann, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, 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
Protest that agency improperly excluded offeror's proposal from the competition
because of an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is dismissed as untimely
where the agency informed the offeror that it had an unequal access to information
OCI, and the conditions under which the offeror would be eligible to compete, and
the offeror failed to challenge the agency's determination prior to the closing time for
receipt of proposals.
DECISION
A Squared Joint Venture (A2JV),1 of Houston, Texas, protests the exclusion of its
proposal from the competition under request for proposals (RFP)
No. NNM16534124R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) for acquisition and business support services (ABSS) for the George C.
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), in Huntsville, Alabama. A2JV argues that
the agency's determination that the offeror had an impermissible organizational
conflict of interest (OCI), and the resulting decision to exclude A2JV from the
competition, were unreasonable.
We dismiss the protest.
1 A2JV is a joint venture comprised of [DELETED], and AI-Razaq Computing
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