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B-310661 1 (2008-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavxl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Karrar Systems Corporation File: B-310661; B-310661.2 Date: January 3, 2008 Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, for the protester. Ross Aboff, Esq., Archer & Greiner, PC, for BANC3, Inc., an intervenor. Daniel Pantzer, Esq., Denise M. Marrama, Esq., and James F. Ford, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to hold meaningful price discussions with protester regarding reasonableness of its proposed price is denied where agency did not find its price unreasonable and brought its only pricing concern to protester's attention. 2. Protest that awardee had an impermissible conflict of interest is denied where agency thoroughly considered circumstances in which awardee could have a conflict, and reasonably determined that there was no actual or potential conflict. DECISION Karrar Systems Corp. protests the award of a contract to BANC3, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. W15P7T-07-R-A226, issued by the Department of the Army for program and administrative services for its R2 program. Karrar principally asserts that the Army failed to provide it with meaningful discussions, and that BANC3 had an impermissible organizational conflict of interest (OCI). We deny the protest. The solicitation contemplated a best value award of a 5-year indefinite-quantity/ indefinite-delivery (ID/IQ) contract based on four evaluation factors (in descending order of importance): technical (with subfactors for three sample task orders--pre- award, post-award and budget), management (with subfactors for transition plan to Aberdeen, transition plan, and management plan), performance risk, and price. RFP at 59. Four offerors responded to the RFP. A source selection evaluation board (SSEB) assigned the initial proposals adjectival ratings under the technical and

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