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A G A O Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
approved for public release.
Decision
Matter of: VRC, Inc.
File: B-310100
Date: November 2, 2007
Bryant S. Banes, Esq., and Sean D. Forbes, Esq., Neel, Hooper & Banes, PC, for the
protester.
Capt. Marlin D. Paschal, Department of the Army, for the agency.
Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that contracting agency should not have disqualified the protester because of
an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied where the agency reasonably
found that an OCI existed based on the fact that an individual employed by a
company with ownership ties to the protester was assigned to work in the agency's
contracting office in connection with the procurement at issue.
DECISION
VRC, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal under request for proposals (RFP)
No. W9133L-07-R-0031, issued by the National Guard Bureau (NGB) for personnel
services in support of the Joint Combined State Strategic Plan. VRC alleges that the
agency improperly disqualified it based on an organizational conflict of interest
(OCI).
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
VRC is the incumbent contractor providing the services called for under the RFP.
Military Personnel Services Corporation (MPSC) is a subcontractor to VRC on the
incumbent contract and would continue in that role if VRC retained the contract.
The sole owner of Taylor Consultants, Inc. (TCI) owns [DELETED] percent of the
total issued and outstanding stock of MPSC. Protest at 2 n.1. TCI is a company
currently under contract with NGB to provide personnel-related services and placed
one of its employees in NGB's contracting division. That TCI employee was assigned
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