OCI is not just a legal issue hiding in a clause.
It is a program killer.
In this episode of The GovCon Show, we break down The Dreaded OCI: Organizational Conflict of Insanity — the business, proposal, subcontracting, staffing, and capture risk that can destroy an opportunity before the government ever evaluates your brilliant technical solution.
Organizational conflicts of interest are not just paperwork. They affect whether a contractor can fairly compete, whether it has an unfair competitive advantage, whether it helped shape the requirement, whether it had unequal access to information, or whether it may be evaluating its own work.
This episode explains the three classic OCI neighborhoods: biased ground rules, unequal access to information, and impaired objectivity. It also covers team member and subcontractor conflicts, firewalls, mitigation plans, late-stage discovery, capture teams minimizing OCI, and the dangerous mindset of “we’ll deal with it if they ask.”
Because OCI does not become dangerous only when someone files a protest.
It becomes dangerous when your system allows the conflict to hide until someone else finds it.
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This is not a lecture.
This is not a webinar.
And it’s definitely not the NPR of government contracting.
This is the show where contracting professionals say the quiet part out loud.
We break down the reality behind federal contracting:
the pressure,
the responsibility,
the decisions that actually matter
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From bad SOWs and rogue FAR clauses to CPSR panic attacks and procurement files that don’t tell the story they should… nothing is off-limits.
Whether you’re new to the game or have been doing this for 20+ years, you already know:
This isn’t just paperwork.
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And sometimes… it’s chaos.
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