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B-421647.2,B-421647.3 Aug 02, 2023 1 (2023-08-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaopbe0001 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: Kearney & Company, PC File: B-421647.2; B-421647.3 Date: August 2, 2023 Craig A. Holman, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., Amanda J. Sherwood, Esq., and Julia Swafford, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for the protester. Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Craig Smith, Esq., Cara L. Sizemore, Esq., Sarah B. Hansen, Esq., Morgan W. Huston, Esq., and Teresita A. Regelbrugge, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Guidehouse Inc., the intervenor. Debra J. Talley, Esq., Thomas L. Clark, Esq., and Kirsten L. Smulovitz, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging various organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the agency meaningfully considered the potential for organizational conflicts of interest related to the awardee's proposal and reasonably found no conflict. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals under non-price evaluation factors is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 3. Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where both the underlying evaluation and the tradeoff decision were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Kearney & Company, PC, of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Guidehouse Inc., of McLean, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 CRB- 22-R-0002, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command-- Aberdeen Proving Ground, for financial compliance audit support services. Kearney challenges various aspects of the agency's source selection process, including the consideration of alleged organizational conflicts of interest (OCI), evaluation of proposals under the non-price evaluation factors, and the best-value tradeoff decision.

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