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KBR

LOGCAP IV Disqualification

Date: 02/23/2009 (Date of GAO Decision)

Misconduct Type: Ethics

Enforcement Agency: Defense – Army

Contracting Party: Defense - Army

Court Type: N/A

Amount: $0

Disposition: Investigative Finding

Synopsis: KBR was disqualified from participation on two task order competitions under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) IV contract because a KBR employee improperly accessed source selection sensitive and proprietary information, and KBR refused to take proper corrective action. In September 2008, an Army contracting officer mistakenly sent to KBR’s contracts manager and program manager an email containing source selection sensitive and proprietary information of KBR, Fluor, and DynCorp. Despite being instructed by the contracting officer to not open and to immediately delete and destroy the email, the KBR program manager opened and looked at the content of the email. KBR also refused the Army’s request to isolate the program manager from the LOGCAP IV program for which the data contained in the email had been prepared.