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B-421740.3,B-421740.4 Jul 23, 2024 1 (2024-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqpb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Guidehouse Inc. File: B-421740.3; B-421740.4 Date: July 23, 2024 Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Cara L. Sizemore, Esq., Jennifer Eve Retener, Esq., and Morgan W. Huston, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq. and John J. O'Brien, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for Deloitte & Touche LLP, the intervenor. Stephan Piel, Esq. and Wayne T. Branom, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Todd C. Culliton, Esq. and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably failed to mitigate an agency employee's personal conflict of interest regarding her participation in the drafting of the solicitation is denied where the record shows that the agency considered the integrity of the ground rules of the competition and their potential for bias and determined that the employee's participation did not create any competitive harm to the protester. DECISION Guidehouse, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, the incumbent contractor, protests the issuance of a task order to Deloitte & Touche LLP, of Arlington, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HQ003423R0124, issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), for audit remediation and sustainment services. Guidehouse argues that WHS failed to investigate and mitigate a government employee's personal conflict of interest. We deny the protest.

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