Yes, there have been situations where conflicts of interest were declared. In those cases, as I said earlier, we ask the contracting officer to exclude the person with the conflict of interest from the contract award decision-making process. This may apply to a direct manager requesting a sole-source contract, or a member of the evaluation committee for a request for proposal, who would then be removed from the committee.
On February 7th, 2023. See this statement in context.