Deloitte Keeps $77 Million DOD Task Order Despite Conflict Claim

Deloitte & Touche LLP can move forward with its $77 million task order to provide audit remediation and sustainment services for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), the GAO said in a decision released Thursday.

Protester Guidehouse Inc. failed to show that the Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Service—which issued the order—didn’t properly investigate an alleged personal conflict of interest involving a former Deloitte employee that joined the agency, the Government Accountability Office said.

The agency affirmatively demonstrated the absence of competitive harm to Guidehouse, because the agency’s investigation shows that the employee’s participation in developing the ...