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                   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:  MANDEX, Inc.

File:     B-421664; B-421664.2;   B-421664.3

Date:        August 16, 2023

Scott F. Lane, Esq., Jayna Marie Rust, Esq., and Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., Thompson
Coburn  LLP, for the protester.
John R. Tolle, Esq., Baker, Cronogue, Tolle & Werfel, LLP, for Imagine One
Technology & Management,   Ltd., the intervenor.
Stephanie Beaty, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Samantha  S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest that the awardee had unequal access to information and impaired objectivity
organizational conflicts of interest is sustained where the record shows that the agency
unreasonably concluded there was no possibility of any potential conflicts arising from
the performance of a related task order.

2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluations of technical proposals and costs is
denied where the evaluations were reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation
criteria.
DECISION

MANDEX,   Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Fairfax, Virginia,
protests the Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command,
Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic's issuance of a task order to Imagine
One Technology  & Management,  Ltd., of Lexington Park, Maryland. The Navy issued
the task order under request for task order proposals (RFP) No. N6523622R3030, for
Marine Air Ground Task Force Command  and  Control Systems and Applications
(MC2SA)  engineering support. MANDEX  argues that the agency's evaluation of
proposals and resulting award decision were improper.


We  sustain the protest.

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