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B-416116.2 1 (2018-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvgf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we D ecision are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Matter of: AboutWeb LLC--Protest and Costs File: B-416116.2 Date: November 9, 2018 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman Attorneys at Law, for the protester. Uri R. Ko, Esq., and Brandon Dell'Aglio, Esq. Social Security Administration, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's request for recommendation that agency reimburse costs of filing and pursuing earlier protest due to agency's alleged failure to proceed with corrective action is denied where agency implementation of corrective action was reasonable. DECISION AboutWeb LLC, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, a small business, requests reimbursement of the costs of filing and pursuing its earlier protest that challenged the issuance of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) order to IT Concepts Inc., of Vienna, Virginia, under an unnumbered' request for quotations (RFQ), issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA), for information technology local area network and desktop support services for the SSA Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Operations, at the SSA headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland.2 AboutWeb argues that our Office should 1 As explained in our earlier decision, the solicitation is identified as the RFQ for Information Technology Local Area Network and Desktop Support. 2 When it filed this matter, AboutWeb also protested the agency's failure to implement the corrective action. While the protest was pending, the SSA completed the corrective action and announced that the new source selection decision had again resulted in an award to IT Concepts. Neither party disputed our suggestion that the protest had become academic, so we dismiss that aspect, Dyna Air Encq'.q Corp., B-278037, Nov. 7, 1997, 97-2 CPD 132, and address only AboutWeb's claim of entitlement to reimbursement of its costs.