OCI_Guidance.pdf
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This document is Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) guidance for federal contract proposal submissions. Offerors must disclose any related past or present work performed by their company, teaming partners, subcontractors, subsidiaries, and legacy companies at locations identified in the requirement that could pose an OCI. Such disclosures must include scope, applicable locations, specific document titles and descriptions, and contract or task order numbers, submitted in Volume 1 of the proposal.
OCIs may manifest in three primary ways: unequal access to information (non-public information providing unfair competitive advantage), biased ground rules (contractor setting procurement parameters that favor its own strengths), and impaired objectivity (contractor judgment compromised when evaluating its own work in ways adverse to its economic interests). If past or present related work exists, offerors must submit a mitigation plan in Volume 1 demonstrating how the company will eliminate or satisfactorily mitigate potential OCI issues. Conversely, if the firm and all teaming partners have performed no work on requirement sites, the offeror must state this explicitly. The Government retains sole authority to determine OCI existence and mitigation adequacy. If adequate mitigation is not proposed, the Government may conduct interchanges to resolve mitigation plan deficiencies. If an OCI cannot be adequately mitigated, the Government will identify an alternative source to provide required support.
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Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) Guidance: If your company (including Teaming
Partners, subcontractors, subsidiaries and legacy companies) performed any related work in the past/present at locations identified in this requirement that could pose an OCI, then the Offeror shall submit identifying information – scope, applicable locations, specific document titles and descriptions, and contract or task order number in Volume 1 of any proposal submission. The
Offeror shall identify any potential OCI issues or appearance of any potential OCI your company (including all Teaming Partners, subcontractors, subsidiaries and legacy companies) may have with respect to the scope of effort as outlined in the Sources Sought/Request for Information. OCIs may exist at least in the following three ways:
Unequal access to information- access to non-public information that gives a contractor an unfair competitive advantage.
Biased ground rules - when a contractor has in some sense set the ground rules for another procurement action creating the potential that the contractor may have tilted the playing field in the new competition (usually toward its own strengths and away from its weaknesses).
Impaired objectivity - when the contract requires exercise of judgment and the independence of its judgment may be affected (e.g., when the contractor may be required to evaluate its own work in a way that could be adverse to its economic interests).
(a) If your company did perform past/present related work for this requirement, a mitigation plan shall be submitted in Volume 1 of any proposal submission, to show how your company will either satisfactorily mitigate or eliminate any potential OCI issues or appearance of any potential OCI. If your firm, including all Teaming Partners, subcontractors, subsidiaries, and legacy companies, has not performed any work on the sites included as part of this requirement, then the Offeror must so state.
(b) The Government will determine if an OCI exists and whether adequate mitigation is proposed. If adequate mitigation is not proposed, the Government may engage in interchanges to determine if the problems with the mitigation plan may be resolved. If an OCI exists that cannot be adequately mitigated, the Government identify another source to provide the required support.
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