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B-299522.5,B-299522.6 1 (2008-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadart0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General KA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Nortel Government Solutions, Inc. File: B-299522.5; B-299522.6 Date: December 30, 2008 James J. Regan, Esq., Daniel R. Forman, Esq., John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., Puja Satiani, Esq., and Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. John S. Pachter, Esq., D. Joe Smith, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Gregory, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for Systems Research and Applications Corporation, an intervenor. James E. Hicks, Esq., Drug Enforcement Administration, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where offeror will be required to review and provide input on designs proposed by itself under separate contract with same agency, agency unreasonably failed to determine the extent of offeror's organizational conflict of interest (OCI) and unreasonably concluded that offeror's mitigation plan was acceptable, where it did not avoid, mitigate, or neutralize the OCI and instead relied on agency's existing process that made government responsible for final decisions. DECISION Nortel Government Solutions, Inc. (NGS) of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the award by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Justice, of a contract to Systems Research and Applications Corporation (SRA) of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DEA-06-R-0013, for enterprise management services (EMS) in support of DEA's information technology (IT) infrastructure. NGS asserts that the agency failed to properly consider SRA's potential organizational conflict of interest (OCI) and challenges the evaluation of proposals. We sustain the protest.

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