Booz Allen’s $316 Million VA Contract Survives Conflict Claim

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. can move forward with a $316 million IT contract from the US Department of Veterans Affairs because a rival bidder didn’t show that an organizational conflict of interest tainted the award.

Protester Tista Science & Technology Corp. didn’t demonstrate that a VA contracting officer relied on “spurious” factual findings before determining that Booz Allen Hamilton wouldn’t have an impaired objectivity conflict if it won the award, Chief Judge Matthew H. Solomson said. The US Court of Federal Claims released the opinion Friday.

An impaired objectivity conflict arises when a contractor under one contract has the chance ...