Concerns about organizational conflicts of interest among vendors providing, for instance, technology planning services and technology implementation services, is as old as federal acquisition itself.
But over the last few weeks, OCI has received more attention and consideration among agencies, and it should be seen as a warning sign to batten down those OCI hatches…
A day later, the Defense Health Agency issued a notice under its Military Health System Enterprise Information Technology Geographic Service Provider (GSP) requirement that calls out seven companies who are conflicted out of bidding on the potential $1.5 billion contract.
Federal procurement experts and lawyers say a notice like this has rarely been seen publicly and gave DHA a lot of credit for taking these public steps…
The reason why DHA called out companies including Perspecta Enterprise Solutions, Capgemini Government Solutions, Guidehouse and Tenacity Solutions was the team won the $2 billion MHS Enterprise IT Services Integrator (EITSI) blanket purchase agreement (BPA), where they are providing program manager support services and working on the government side to help DHA manage the follow-on contracts for geographic service providers.
DHA says these companies would be conflicted out of bidding on any “work for the duration of the BPA and for 18 months after the final day of performance under the BPA or any call orders thereunder.” … Read the full article here.
