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B-412870.2 1 (2016-10-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadssa0001 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 been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: NCI Information Systems, Inc. File: B-412870.2 Date: October 14, 2016 Daniel P. Graham, Esq., Bryan T. Bunting, Esq., and Tyler E. Robinson, Esq., Vinson & Elkins LLP, for the protester. Kevin J. Maynard, Esq., Tara L. Ward, Esq., Gary S. Ward, Esq., and Nina S. Rustgi, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for HP Enterprise Services, LLC, an intervenor. William B. Blake, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that agency failed to consider unmitigated organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is sustained where the agency failed to document its consideration of an impaired objectivity OCI identified by the awardee in its proposal. 2. Protest challenging the reasonableness of the agency's price realism is sustained where the various analyses undertaken by the agency did not support the agency's conclusion that awardee's price was consistent with its technical approach. DECISION NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI), of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to HP Enterprise Services, LLC (HPES), of Herndon, Virginia, by the Department of the Interior under request for proposals (RFP) No. D15PS00661, for information technology (IT) services. The protester argues that the agency failed to consider an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) and challenges the agency's evaluation. We sustain the protest.

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