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B-286714.3 1 (2001-08-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamnb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountablity* Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Johnson Controls World Services, Inc. File: B-286714.3 Date: August 20, 2001 Stuart B. Nibley, Esq., Joseph J. Dyer, Esq., and Robert F. Pezzimenti, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw, for the protester. Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., Dorn C. McGrath III, Esq., and Mary Kay Ogden, Esq., Reed Smith, for IT Corporation, an intervenor. Col. Michael R. Neds, and Raymond M. Saunders, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against agency's proposed corrective action regarding organizational conflicts of interest addressed in prior decision is denied, where agency's proposed actions are a reasonable means for mitigating prior awardee's potential competitive advantage and potential impaired objectivity. DECISION Johnson Controls World Services, Inc. (JCWSI) protests the Department of the Army's proposed corrective action in response to our decision in Johnson Controls World Services, Inc., B-286714.2, Feb. 13, 2001, 2001 CPD 20. In that decision, we found that the awardee, IT Corporation, had improper organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT60-99-R-0013, issued to acquire various services at Fort Benning, Georgia. JCWSI maintains that the proposed correction action is inadequate to address the OCIs. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND This acquisition (conducted under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76) was for a broad array of services to be performed at Fort Benning. The Army identified IT as the apparent successful offeror under the solicitation, and thus

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