Unauthorized Release of Incumbent’s Proposals for Current Requirement Gives Rise to OCIs, Procurement Integrity Act Violation; GAO B-414461, Dell Services Federal Government Inc.

Protest alleging the agency failed to reasonably investigate a possible Procurement Integrity Act violation is sustained, where the agency concluded that the release of the incumbent contractor’s proposals for the current requirement would have no effect on the follow-on competition, but did not consider whether a competitor’s access to the incumbent’s proposed pricing, labor rates, and staffing strategies would provide a competitive advantage; and protest arguing the prospective offeror has organizational conflicts of interest arising from its receipt of the protester’s proposals is sustained, where the agency failed to consider that the firm had access to nonpublic, competitively useful information, or that the individual supplying that information may have participated in developing the agency’s requirements for the current acquisition.