Deloitte’s $77 Million Order Needs Conflict of Interest Review

Guidehouse LLP won its protest of a $77 million task order awarded to Deloitte & Touche LLP 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.

The task order—awarded by the Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Service—was flawed because the agency failed to show it adequately considered a conflict of interest arising from an evaluator’s potential financial interest in Deloitte, the Government Accountability Office said.

An agency contracting officer should document her investigation into any actual or apparent conflict, and should consider whether it ...