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B-407069,B-407069.2 1 (2012-11-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpds0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 I The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision aproved forP ublic release. Matter of: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. File: B-407069; B-407069.2 Date: November 1,2012 Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq., Larkin Reynolds, Esq., Edwin 0. Childs, Esq., Heather Renwick, Esq., Leslie Harrelson, Esq., and Carla J. Weiss, Esq., Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, for the protester. Jacob W. Scott, Esq., Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., and Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Vedder Price P.C., for Serco, Inc., the intervenor. Capt. Scott J. Hoffman and Marian Ciborski, Esq., Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Contracting officer's determination that there was no organizational conflict of interest that would preclude an award to the awardee was reasonable where the contracting officer reasonably investigated to see if an award would present an organizational conflict of interest and reasonably determined that it would not. 2. Agency conducted meaningful discussions with the protester and was not required to advise the protester during discussions of proposal weaknesses that were reasonably considered by the agency not to be significant. DECISION General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. of Taunton, Massachusetts, protests the award of a contract to Serco, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00039-1 1 -R-0055, issued by the Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), for the production of automated digital network system (ADNS) Increment (INC) III, to be used ashore and on certain Navy ships.' The protester argues that the Navy failed to meaningfully review whether 1 The agency explains that the ADNS is an incremental acquisition program wherein new capabilities are added in follow-on increments. Agency Report (AR) (continued...)

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