Guidehouse’s Army Audit Support Award Withstands Conflict Claim

Guidehouse Inc. can move forward with a nearly $99 million contract to provide the US Army Materiel Command with financial compliance and audit support services.

Protester Kearney & Co. PC didn’t show that the Army failed to meaningfully consider whether the award was tainted by an organizational conflict of interest, the Government Accountability Office said in a decision released on Tuesday.

Kearney argued that Guidehouse’s preexisting contract with the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Deputy Chief Financial Officer Operations, would require oversight of the Army Materiel Command contract, and therefore create an impaired objectivity conflict.

But the Army’s contracting ...