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B-412624.3 1 (2017-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtcf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below wassubjectto Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Best Value Technology, Inc.--Costs File: B-412624.3 Date: February 6, 2017 Steven N. Tomanelli, Esq., Steven N. Tomanelli Law Office, for the protester. Jason A. Fragoso, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, 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 of filing and pursuing its protest is granted, where the record shows that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action in the face of a clearly meritorious protest. DECISION Best Value Technology, Inc. (BVTI), of Haymarket, Virginia, requests that we recommend that it be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protest of the award of a contract to Sierra7, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA1 19-15-R-0217, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for auditing support services. We dismissed the protest after the agency advised our Office that it would take corrective action by cancelling the awarded contract. BVTI argues that its protest was clearly meritorious and that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action. We grant the request. BACKGROUND On September 4, 2015, the VA issued the RFP as a set-aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. RFP at 7.1 The solicitation sought auditing 1 Except where expressly indicated otherwise, citations to pages in the record are to the Bates-numbered pages added by the agency in its report responding to the protest.