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B-421581.2,B-421581.3 Sep 25, 2023 1 (2023-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaopft0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; D ecisio n We are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Matter of: The District Communications Group, LLC; CruxDCG LLC File: B-421581.2; B-421581.3 Date: September 25, 2023 H. Todd Whay, Esq., and Ian A. Cronogue, Esq., Baker, Cronogue, Tolle & Werfel, LLP, for the protesters. Danica Hong, Esq., and Aleia Barlow, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Scott H. Riback, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests that agency unreasonably excluded the protesters from a competition on the basis of an impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest arising from an ongoing task order for related services are denied, where the contracting officer meaningfully considered the circumstances and reasonably concluded that possible award of a contract to the protesters presented an impaired objectivity type conflict of interest that could be avoided by exclusion of the firms from the competition. DECISION The District Communications Group, LLC (District), of Plantation, Florida, and CruxDCG LLC, of Roseville, California, a small business, protest their exclusion from competition for a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C10X23R0006, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Strategic Acquisition Center, for commercial support services to assist the VA's efforts to reduce and prevent suicide in military and veteran populations. The protesters contend that the RFP improperly excludes them from the competition to avoid an impaired objectivity type of organizational conflict of interest (OCI) arising from other work being performed by District. The protesters argue that no conflict exists or that any potential conflict could be easily avoided without excluding the protesters from the competition. We deny the protests.

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