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B-420490 May 03, 2022 1 (2022-05-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaonbi0001 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 i a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has + + +been approved for public release. Matter of: L3Harris Technologies, Inc. File: B-420490 Date: May 3, 2022 Andrew E. Shipley, Esq., Philip E. Beshara, Esq., and Douglas W. Gates, Esq., Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, for the protester. Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., and Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., Vedder Price PC, for Peraton Inc., the intervenor. Lieutenant Colonel Matthew W. Ramage-White, Kevin P. Stiens, Esq., and Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency failed to properly consider an impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied where the record shows that the contracting officer gave meaningful consideration to whether the awardee had an OCI and there is no clear evidence in the record that the agency's conclusion was unreasonable. DECISION L3Harris Technologies, Inc., of Palm Bay, Florida, protests the award of a contract to Peraton Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA7022-21-R- 0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force for software development and engineering services support. L3Harris argues that the agency failed to adequately consider whether Peraton has an organizational conflict of interest that would preclude award to it. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND This protest involves the procurement of the Mission System Support 2 (MSS-2) contract, which serves as the successor to the MSS-1 contract. Under both contracts, the contractor is responsible for providing highly specialized software development and

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