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GAO Denies Challenge To OCI Waiver
By Peter J. Eyre on
Posted in Bid Protest
In MCR Federal, LLC, B-401954.2 (Aug. 17, 2010), GAO denied protester’s challenge to the agency’s decision, in the context of taking corrective action, to waive organizational conflicts of interest for two offerors. The agency – CIA – concluded that executing a waiver was in the government’s best interest, because the pool of qualified contractors …