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B-422235.5,B-422235.6 Nov 18, 2024 1 (2024-11-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaorci0001 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: NTT DATA Services Federal Government, LLC File: B-422235.5; B-422235.6 Date: November 18, 2024 Kevin J. Maynard, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Morgan W. Huston, Esq., and Michael 0. Warren, Jr., Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. James Y. Boland, Esq., Christopher G. Griesedieck, Jr., Esq., Lindsay M. Reed, Esq., and Kelly M. Boppe, Esq., Venable LLP, for Salient CGRT, Inc., the intervenor. John B. Alumbaugh, Esq., and Eugene J. Benick, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency's waiver of organizational conflicts of interest is invalid and unreasonable is denied when the waiver is consistent with the requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. DECISION NTT DATA Services Federal Government, LLC (NTT), of Herndon, Virginia, protests the agency's decision to allow Salient CRGT, Inc. (Salient), of Fairfax, Virginia, to compete for the award of a contract under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 72MC1023Q00002, issued by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for operations and maintenance services in support of the USAID's information technology (IT) infrastructure and systems.' The protester argues that Salient has unmitigable organizational conflicts of interest (OCIs), the agency unreasonably decided not to exclude Salient from the competition, and the agency failed to properly execute a waiver of Salient's OCIs. 1 GovCIO (formally named as Government CIO LLC) acquired Salient, Inc. on August 19, 2021, and Salient continues to operate and do business as a subsidiary of GovCIO. Protest at 3 n.1. The agency's documentation refers to Salient as GovCIO LLC/Salient CRGT; however, we refer to the entity as Salient throughout the decision.

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