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B-416041,B-416041.2 1 (2018-05-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadurj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Management Sciences for Health File: B-416041 ; B-416041.2 Date: May 25, 2018 J. Hunter Bennett, Esq., Kayleigh Scalzo, Esq., Evan R. Sherwood, Esq., Michelle S. Willauer, Esq., Jason A. Carey, Esq., and Alan A. Pemberton, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Hart W. Wood, Esq., and James G. Peyster, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Abt Associates, the intervenor. John B. Alumbaugh, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the awardee has an unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest is denied where record shows that the information was voluntarily disclosed by the protester to the awardee's subcontractor pursuant to a previous arms- length agreement between those firms. 2. Protest that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions is denied where discussions identified all deficiencies and significant weaknesses in the protester's proposal and were not misleading. 3. Protest that the evaluation of proposals was unequal is denied where differences in the proposals support the offerors' different evaluation results. DECISION Management Sciences for Health (MSH), of Medford, Massachusetts, protests the award of a contract to Abt Associates, of Bethesda, Maryland, by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-660-16-000009, for USAID's Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) integrated health project. MSH contends that the award to Abt suffers from an unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest (OCI) that the agency failed to recognize or assess. According to the protester, the OCI stems from the fact that Abt's

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