GAO Looks at Conflict of Interest Issue

A Government Accounting Office bid protest opinion discusses a possible conflict of interest situation. The POGO Blog discussion includes the following:

Reading the protest, it seems that any investigation should ask whether [the government official] was hired specifically to work on this proposal: a draft of the Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued in June, the [TRICARE Management Activity] employee started working for [Aetna Government Health Plans], on November 19, and the next day he started working on projects related to the proposal. "The former Chief of Staff was in fact a member of AGHP’s proposal preparation team," said the GAO. And he kept on accessing his TMA email account after he started working for AGHP.

[Emphasis in original].