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B-415318.5,B-415318.6 1 (2018-08-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvbr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: ARP Sciences, LLC File: B-415318.5; B-415318.6 Date: August 9, 2018 Michael D. McGill, Esq., Thomas L. McGovern III, Esq., Christine Reynolds, Esq., and Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for the protester. Marina Burton Blickley, Esq., Lars E. Anderson, Esq., and Shiva S. Hamidinia, Esq., Odin Feldman Pittleman PC, for SNA International, LLC, the intervenor. Frank A. March, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency failed to adequately consider the awardee's unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied, where the agency reasonably considered the available information and concluded that no conflict of interest existed. 2. Supplemental protest challenging the adequacy of the agency's waiver of rules and procedures pertaining to an OCI is dismissed, where the waiver was executed shortly before GAO's statutory 100-day deadline, our Office was already prepared to conclude that the OCI allegation had no merit, and GAO's decision to deny the OCI challenge renders academic the challenge to the waiver. 3. Protest that the agency unreasonably assigned the protester a good rather than an outstanding rating is denied, where the source selection authority looked beyond the adjectival ratings to consider the strengths in the protester's proposal. 4. Protest that the agency unequally assigned strengths to offerors' proposals is denied, where the protester's proposal did not offer the same features as the awardee's. 5. Protest that the agency failed to consider the risks posed by the awardee's proposal to retain a high percentage of incumbent staff while the awardee intends to offer decreased pay and benefits is denied, where the record shows that the agency reasonably considered the awardee's proposed labor rates, the protester did not

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