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B-405112.3 1 (2012-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadovx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Guident Technologies, Inc. File: B-405112.3 Date: June 4, 2012 Peter A. Deliso, Esq., and Nelson Blitz, Esq., Executive Counsel PLC, for the protester. Robert E. Korroch, Esq., William Alexander Wozniak, Esq., and Anthony Hotchkiss Anikeeff, Esq., Williams Mullen, for Claraview, the intervenor. Michelle L. Sabin, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee had an unmitigated impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest was timely filed after the agency selected the awardee for award, notwithstanding the fact that the protester knew, prior to award, that the awardee was competing under the solicitation, and the basis for the alleged conflict. 2. Protest is denied where the contracting officer gave meaningful consideration to whether the awardee had an impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest and there is no clear evidence in the record that the agency's conclusion was unreasonable. DECISION Guident Technologies, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Claraview, a division of Teradata, of Reston, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HC1028-10-R-2038 issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Department of Defense (DoD), for Data Management (DMO), Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and Business Intelligence (BI) support services for the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA). The protester alleges that the awardee has an impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest (OCI). 1 1 The protester also alleged several improprieties in the agency's evaluation of the protester's and the awardee's proposals. For example, Guident asserts that the (continued...)

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