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B-266333 1 (1996-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadvj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Washington Utility Group File: B-266333 Date: January 29, 1996 Thomas E. Strait for the protester. Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly excluded protester from competition for support services where contracting officer reasonably determined that professional or business relationships disclosed by the protester and a proposed subcontractor had the potential for impairing the protester's ability to provide objective and impartial advice to the agency. DECISION The Washington Utility Group (WUG) protests the rejection of its proposal under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RPO1-95EE16102, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for support services. The contracting officer excluded WUG from further participation in the procurement based on her conclusion that WUG had an unavoidable organizational conflict of interest (OCI).1 We deny the protest. 1The contracting officer also excluded the protester's proposal from further consideration on the basis that WUG had gained an unfair competitive advantage in the procurement. Since we conclude that the agency properly excluded the protester's proposal due to the unavoidable OCI, we need not address the protester's contention that it did not have access to any information in this procurement that was not publicly available. 323129

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