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B-412948.2 1 (2016-07-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadskj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washigton DC 0548DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decisin been approvedforpublic release. Matter of: Systems Made Simple, Inc. File: B-412948.2 Date: July 20, 2016 Robert M. Moore, Esq., Richard 0. Wolf, Esq., and Casey J. McKinnon, Esq., Moore & Lee, LLP; and Maryann P. Surrick, Esq., Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the protester. Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Esq., Peter J. Eyre, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., Olivia L. Lynch, Esq., and Hart W. Wood, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP; and Nicole 0. Saunders, Esq., Accenture Federal Services, LLC, for ASM Research, LLC, an intervenor. John W. Tangalos, Esq., and Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to give adequate consideration to awardee's potential organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated whether the awardee had the ability to shape the ground rules for the procurement or unequal access to information, and where the protester's assertions fail to present hard facts indicating the existence of a conflict. 2. Protest challenging the rating assigned to protester's technical proposal is denied where the protester fails to demonstrate that it was prejudiced by the alleged error; even if the protester had received a higher technical rating, the awardee would have remained both higher-rated and lower-priced than the protester. DECISION Systems Made Simple, Inc. (SMS), of Vienna, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to ASM Research, LLC (ASMR), of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for task execution plan (RTEP) No. T4-0800, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for National Service Desk (NSD) help desk services. SMS argues that the agency failed to reasonably analyze the awardee's organizational conflict of

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