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B-402256.3 1 (2010-12-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbqh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General 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: Valdez International Corporation File: B-402256.3 Date: December 29, 2010 Robert S. Gardner, Esq., for the protester. Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., and Shlomo Katz, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for Sabreliner Corporation, the intervenor. Robert J. Brown, Esq., and Larry M. Anderson, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting officer's determination that the awardee's contract performance would not pose an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) was reasonable, where the contracting officer engaged in an extensive investigation to determine whether award would present an OCI and reasonably found that it would not. DECISION Valdez International Corporation, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, protests the award of a contract to Sabreliner Corporation, of St. Louis, Missouri, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA7000-09-R-0059, issued by the Department of the Air Force, U.S. Air Force Academy, to obtain support for engineering tasks and research activities for aging structures initiated by the Academy's Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE) program. Valdez contends that Sabreliner has an organizational conflict of interest (OCI). We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The CAStLE program, located in the Academy's Department of Engineering Mechanics, has a dual mission of supporting the education and training of cadets by bringing Air Force-relevant research and engineering activities into the classroom and by providing structural integrity tools and information to the aerospace structure communities of the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and

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