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B-298870.3 1 (2007-07-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaubw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A 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: Axiom Resource Management, Inc. File: B-298870.3; B-298870.4 Date: July 12, 2007 James S. DelSordo, Esq., Argus Legal, LLC, for the protester. LTC Frank A. March, Department of the Army, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency reasonably determined that the issuance of a task order to a vendor to provide program management support services to the TRICARE Acquisitions Directorate did not create an impermissible organizational conflict of interest (OCI) where the agency reviewed both existing and future support requirements, and concluded that no OCI exists for current support contracts, that any potential future OCIs can be mitigated and that the awardee here will be barred from competing as a prime contractor or subcontractor on future support contracts to provide healthcare benefits directly to TRICARE benefit recipients. DECISION Axiom Resource Management, Inc. protests the issuance of a task order to Lockheed Martin Federal Healthcare, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 154160, issued by the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), for program management support services for the TRICARE Acquisitions Directorate, including support for the TRICARE Office of General Counsel and TRICARE transition and integration contracts. The protester argues that the agency failed to recognize, or properly mitigate, an alleged organizational conflict of interest (OCI) created by award' to Lockheed, erred in deciding not to hold discussions, and conducted an unreasonable evaluation. 1 We recognize that this protest involves an RFQ; however, the agency throughout its procurement record uses award language to refer to its issuance of a task order. For consistency with the underlying record, we will refer to the issuance of this task order as an award.

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