Crowell & Moring - GAO’s recent decision in A Square Group, LLC, is a rarer type of organizational conflict of interest (OCI) sustain: the agency considered the purported OCI and documented its conclusion that the OCI had been mitigated. However, GAO found that the agency’s conclusions were unreasonable, and the OCI risk remained.
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Agency Said Awardee Fully Mitigated OCI; GAO Says: “Nope!”
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