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B-415965.4 1 (2018-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduwi0001 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 Dsa GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decison Ibeen approved for public release. Matter of: Deque Systems, Inc. File: B-415965.4 Date: June 13, 2018 Susan Warshaw Ebner, Esq., Sean D. Lee, Esq., and Jacqueline R. Scott, Esq., Fortney & Scott, LLC, for the protester. Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., Robert S. Metzger, Esq., Stephen L. Bacon, Esq., and Lucas T. Hanback, Esq., Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, PC, for Level Access, Inc., the intervenor. Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's corrective action, which was taken in response to an earlier protest, is dismissed as premature where the protester merely anticipates improper prejudicial agency action. 2. Protester's argument that another firm has an impermissible conflict of interest, and thus should be precluded from competing under solicitation, is dismissed as premature where award has not yet been made. DECISION Deque Systems, Inc., a small business located in Herndon, Virginia, challenges the terms of the corrective action undertaken by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in response to Deque's protest (B-415965, B-415965.2, B-415965.3) of the award of a contract to Level Access, Inc., of Vienna, Virginia, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. VA118-18-R-0143 for Section 508 program scanning and services.1 Deque alleges that the agency's corrective action is improper. The protester also alleges bias on behalf of agency officials and argues that new facts have emerged to establish that there is an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) that the agency has not properly addressed. 1 Section 508 refers to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, which generally requires that agencies' electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities. See 29 U.S.C. § 794d.

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