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B-411842.5 1 (2016-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadssb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Alliant SB CTA, LLC--Costs File: B-411842.5 Date: November 4, 2016 Joseph L. Fuller, Esq., Stephen M. Sorett, Esq., Nicole P. Moriarty, Esq., L. Elise Dieterich, Esq., and Brittney R. McClain, Esq., Kutak Rock LLP, for the protester. Scott F. McCleary, Esq., General Services Administration, Information Technology Service, 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 Protester's request for a recommendation that it be reimbursed its costs for filing and pursing its protest is denied where agency took prompt corrective action in response to supplemental protest, and the initial protest was not clearly meritorious. DECISION Alliant SB CTA, LLC (ASC), of Omaha, Nebraska, requests that we recommend that it be reimbursed the costs associated with filing and pursuing its protests against the decision of the General Services Administration (GSA), Information Technology Service, to exclude ASC from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. ID05140054, issued under the GSA's Alliant Small Business Government Wide Acquisition Contract, for information technology support for the Department of Agriculture's National Information Technology Center. We deny the request. BACKGROUND The GSA issued the solicitation on December 19, 2014, seeking proposals for the performance of a single-award task order for one base year and four 1-year option periods, to provide a wide range of information technology support services to the National Information Technology Center. After evaluation of initial proposals, the agency rated the majority of initial proposals--including ASC's initial proposal-- technically unacceptable. The agency then elected to establish a competitive range