Most organizational conflict of interest (OCI) sustains arise where the record shows that an agency failed to analyze the potential for a conflict. But GAO’s decision in A Square Group, LLC, is a rarer type of 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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