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B-417994 1 (2019-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeakg0001 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Leidos, Inc. File: B-417994 Date: December 17, 2019 Paul F. Khoury, Esq., and J. Ryan Frazee, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Anne B. Perry, Esq., Townsend L. Bourne, Esq., and Keeley McCarty, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for Science Applications International Corporation, the intervenor. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Lietenant Colonel John C. Degnan, Lawrence M. Anderson, Esq., Sean M. Hannaway, Esq., Amy E. Bryan, Esq. and Major Douglas M. Arnett, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging exclusion of protester from procurement is denied where contracting officer reasonably determined that proposed subcontractor's responsibility as a subcontractor under a program related to the procurement created a potential impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest that was not mitigated by firewall or proposed recusal. DECISION Leidos, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the elimination for consideration for award of the proposal it submitted in response to Fair Opportunity Proposal Request (FOPR) No. FA8726-19-F-0096, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the Common Computing Environment (CCE) Cloud follow-on award.' Leidos asserts that the Air Force unreasonably determined that it was nonresponsible, and ineligible for award, because of impaired objectivity and unequal access to information organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) created by its proposed subcontractor (Subcontractor A). 1 The CCE program is now known as the Cloud One program. Contracting Officer's Statement and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 4.

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