No Appearance of Impropriety OCI Where Former Agency Employee Goes to Work for Contract Awardee; COFC No. 17-508C, Harkcon Inc. v. United States

Protest alleging the awardee had an organizational conflict of interest is denied, where a former agency employee hired by the awardee did not participate in preparation of RFP, did not have access to the protester’s proprietary information, and had no role in crafting the awardee’s price proposal.