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B-417406.2, B-417406.3 1 (2019-11-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeahk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release.----------------------------- Matter of: ORBIS Sibro, Inc. File: B-417406.2; B-417406.3 Date: November 19, 2019 Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., and Christopher Lockwood, Esq., Wilmer & Lee, PA, for the protester. Ambika Biggs, Esq., Hirschler Fleischer, for Patrona Corporation, the intervenor. Ryan Banach, Esq., and Sabrina Hay, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency applied an unstated evaluation criterion by assigning its proposal a weakness for failing to address the provisions of a voluminous document incorporated by reference in the solicitation is denied when the solicitation directed offerors to propose in accordance with the document and the agency called the relevant portion of the incorporated document to the protester's attention repeatedly during discussions. 2. Protest alleging that awardee had an unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest and was involved in a Procurement Integrity Act violation is denied where the agency's investigation revealed no evidence that the awardee had access to nonpublic or procurement-sensitive information. DECISION ORBIS Sibro, Inc., a small business of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, protests the issuance of a task order under the Department of the Navy's Seaport-E indefinite- delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to Patrona Corporation, a small business of Arlington, Virginia, by the Department of the Navy for maintenance, planning and fleet support logistics services. The protester alleges that the agency erred in its evaluation of proposals and best-value tradeoff, and also failed to investigate the awardee's alleged organizational conflicts of interest (OCIs). We deny the protest.

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