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B-409189.3 1 (2014-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqpw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General r Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Al C Partners, LLC--Costs File: B-409189.3 Date: September 30, 2014 Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Margo Stone, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that agency reimburse costs for two protests, the second of which reasserted allegations from the prior protest, is denied where the agency did not unduly delay taking corrective action in either protest, or implement corrective action which failed to address clearly meritorious issues. DECISION Al C Partners, LLC, requests that our Office recommend that it be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing protests challenging the award of a contract to Six3 Intelligence Solutions, Inc., issued by the Department of Homeland Security under solicitation No. HSSA02-13-R-3002, for intelligence support services. We deny the request. Al C filed its initial protest against the agency's award to Six3 on October 29, 2013, alleging that the agency improperly converted the solicitation's award criteria from best value to lowest-priced technically acceptable (LPTA), and did not properly evaluate Six3's price for realism, among other issues. In response to that protest, prior to the deadline for submitting the agency report, the agency decided to take corrective action consisting of reevaluating the proposals and making a new source selection decision. Based on that corrective action, our Office dismissed A1C's initial protest as academic on November 20, 2013. The agency completed its stated corrective action on April 8, 2014, and informed Al C that it had again selected Six3 for the award of the contract. Al C requested a debriefing, which the agency provided on April 16. A1C then filed its second protest