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B-404496.3 1 (2011-10-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoih0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .L SG AO Comptroller General f.Accountabity * 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. D e c i s i o n ...................................................................................................................... Matter of: TeleCommunication Systems Inc. File: B-404496.3 Date: October 26, 2011 Jessica C. Abrahams, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. Stephanie A. Kreis, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Michael Charness, Esq., Jamie F. Tabb, Esq., and Christine N. Roushdy, Esq., Vinson & Elkins, for Stratos Government Services, Inc., the intervenor. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of propriety of agency's termination of contract with awardee that hired a former high-level agency employee on the basis that there was an appearance of impropriety that may have caused an unfair competitive advantage for the awardee is denied where the agency conducted a thorough and well-documented investigation, which found that the employee had access to non-public source selection sensitive information during his government employment and appeared to have input into awardee's preparation of its revised proposal when employed by the awardee. DECISION TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS), of Annapolis, Maryland, protests the decision of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to terminate contract No. HC1013-11-D-0100, which had been awarded to TCS, and to award the contract to Stratos Government Services, Inc. (SGSI). TCS complains that the agency's termination of TCS's contract, based on the agency's determination that there was an appearance of impropriety that may have caused an unfair competitive advantage for TCS, was improper. We deny the protest.

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