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B-416728.3 1 (2019-03-20)

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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                          The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                  a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                          been approved for public release.


Matter of:   Department of the Air Force

File:        B-416728.3

Date:       March 20, 2019

Colonel C. Taylor Smith, Jason R. Smith, Esq., and Major George Mathew, Department
of the Air Force, for the requester.
David Y. Yang, Esq., Alix K. Town, Esq., and Daniel P. Radthorne, Esq., Oles Morrison
Rinker & Baker, LLP, for Barbaricum LLC, the protester.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Agency's request for reconsideration is denied and dismissed where the agency fails to
identify errors of law or fact in our prior decision, and repeats previously-made
arguments which our Office considered and rejected.
DECISION

The Department of the Air Force requests reconsideration of our decision in Barbaricum
LLC, B-416728, B-416728.2, Dec. 3, 2018,1 wherein we sustained Barbaricum's protest
challenging the Air Force's issuance of a task order (TO) to Fors Marsh Group (FMG),
pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1281807, for opinion research support
services. The Air Force asserts that our decision contains errors of fact and law.

We deny the reconsideration request.

BACKGROUND

The solicitation, which was set aside for small businesses and issued pursuant to the
Federal Supply Schedule procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4,



1 Our citations to the decision refer to the protected decision that was issued in this
matter; our Office has not yet released a public/redacted version of the decision.