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B-408558.4,B-408558.5,B-408558.6 1 (2014-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqrd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 Decision [e for pic release. Matter of: FCi Federal, Inc. File: B-408558.4; B-408558.5; B-408558.6 Date: October 20, 2014 Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq., Walter A.l. Wilson, Esq., Daniel J. Donohue, Esq., Grace 0. Aduroja, Esq., and Erin L. Felix, Polsinelli PC, for the protester. Anne B. Perry, Esq., Jonathan S. Aronie, Esq., Townsend L. Bourne, Esq., and Fatema Merchant, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for U.S. Investigative Services Professional Services Division, Inc., the intervenor. Barbara Walthers, Esq., Mark A. Allen, Esq., Eric Crane, Esq., and Beth Sturgess, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging a contracting officer's affirmative determination of the awardee's responsibility is sustained where the record shows that the contracting officer failed to obtain and consider the specific allegations of fraud alleged by the Department of Justice against the awardee, relying instead on general media reports; failed to consider the close relationship between the awardee and its parent company with respect to the contemplated approach to contract performance, mistakenly believing that the two companies were separate; and apparently misunderstood the legal standards related to affirmative responsibility determinations. DECISION FCi Federal, Inc., of Leesburg, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to U.S. Investigative Services Professional Services Division, Inc. (USIS PSD), of Falls Church, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSSCCG-13-R-00002, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, for field office support services. FCi challenges the agency's affirmative determination of responsibility. We sustain the protest.

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