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B-420157.2 Jul 06, 2022 1 (2022-07-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaonjf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: KOAM Engineering Systems, Inc. File: B-420157.2 Date: July 6, 2022 Richard P. Rector, Esq., C. Bradford Jorgensen, Esq., and Thomas E. Daley, Esq., DLA Piper, for the protester. J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., Rebecca E. Pearson, Esq., Taylor A. Hillman, Esq., and Lindsay M. Reed, Esq., Venable LLP, for McKean Defense Group, LLC, the intervenor. Tracey L. Ferguson, Esq., Department of the Navy, the agency. Michael P. Grogan, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the awardee gained an unfair competitive advantage based on an apparent conflict of interest where one of the awardee's proposed key persons is married to an agency contracting officer's representative on the protester's incumbent contract is denied where the record reflects that the agency official was not involved in the instant procurement and the protester's cost information from the incumbent contract was not disclosed, or, alternatively, the awardee would not have obtained an unfair competitive advantage by virtue of receiving the information. 2. Protest challenging agency's cost realism evaluation is denied where the record demonstrates the upward adjustments to the awardee's proposed costs were not inconsistent with the solicitation, and that the agency reasonably determined those adjustments did not indicate the awardee lacked an understanding of the agency's requirements. DECISION KOAM Engineering Systems, Inc. (KES), of San Diego, California, protests the award of a contract to McKean Defense Group, LLC (McKean), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N6600121 R0041, issued by the Department of the Navy, for support services to the Naval Information Warfare Systems Center Pacific Network Integration Engineering Facility (NIEF). The protester contends a personal conflict of interest (or the appearance of such) tainted the award decision, and that the Navy's cost evaluation of McKean's proposal was unreasonable.

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