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B-411573.2,B-411573.3 1 (2015-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrqp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General A Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision Ia GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: DRS Technical Services, Inc. File: B-411573.2; B-411573.3 Date: November 9, 2015 Neil H. O'Donnell, Esq., Lauren B. Kramer, Esq., and Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, PC, for the protester. Michael F. Mason, Esq., C. Peter Dungan, Esq., Nicole D. Picard, Esq., and Stacy M. Hadeka, Hogan Lovells US LLP, for Lockheed Martin Integrated Services, Inc., the intervenor. Annemarie Drazenovich, Esq., Daniel R. Wilmoth, Esq., and Debra J. Talley, Esq., Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Brent Burrs, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where agency's evaluation of awardee's proposed level of effort was unreasonable and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Although protester raises an untimely challenge to the terms of the solicitation, we address it on the merits under GAO's exception to its timeliness rules, as it raises an issue of significant interest to the procurement community. Protest of solicitation's evaluation scheme is sustained where it failed to account for differences in offerors' transition plans and effectively penalized offerors that proposed to provide full staffing and operational performance on the first day of the task order and rewarded offers that proposed a phased approach to staffing and performance. 3. Agency's organizational conflict of interest (OCI) investigation was not reasonable as it failed to meaningfully consider whether the awardee's performance of a portion of the work required under the anticipated task order would result in an impaired objectivity OCI. DECISION DRS Technical Services, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Lockheed Martin Integrated Services, Inc. (LMIS), of Bethesda, Maryland,

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