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B-286714.2 1 (2001-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamna0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Johnson Controls World Services, Inc. File: B-286714.2 Date: February 13, 2001 Stuart B. Nibley Esq., Joseph J. Dyer, Esq., and Robert F. Pezzimenti, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw, for the protester. Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., Dorn C. McGrath III, Esq., and Mary Kay Ogden, Esq., Reed Smith, for IT Corporation, an intervenor. Raymond M. Saunders, Esq., and Michael R. Neds, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee had unfair competitive advantage due to organizational conflict of interest is sustained where awardee's proposed subcontractor possessed information through its work as a government contractor, the information was not available to other offerors, the agency took no steps to identify or mitigate the conflict in advance, and there were no meaningful procedures in place to prevent interaction between the employees possessing the information and the employees preparing the proposal. 2. Protest that awardee has impaired objectivity type of organizational conflict of interest is sustained where record shows that, under the terms of another contract, proposed subcontractor will be making recommendations that could benefit the awardee, and the proposed subcontractor could be called upon to evaluate the performance of the awardee team. DECISION Johnson Controls World Services, Inc. (JCWSI) protests the award of a contract to IT Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT60-99-R-0013, issued by the Department of the Army for services to be performed at Fort Benning, Georgia. JCWSI maintains that IT, through one of its subcontractors (Innovative Logistics Techniques, Inc. (INNOLOG)), has an impermissible organizational conflict of interest (OCI), and that the award therefore was improper.

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