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B-417803.2 1 (2019-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeadq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: AeroSage, LLC--Costs File: B-417803.2 Date: October 29, 2019 David M. Snyder, AeroSage, LLC, for the protester. Benjamin Ratichek, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation of reimbursement of protest and bid preparation costs following corrective action is denied where the record does not establish that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action when it announced its decision to take corrective action by the time established for the submission of the agency's report. DECISION AeroSage, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Tampa, Florida, requests that we recommend reimbursement of the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protest of the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C78619Q0312, the evaluation of quotations, and the award of a contract to Crystal Flash, Inc., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for diesel fuel and ethanol-free gasoline at Fort Custer National Cemetery in Augusta, Michigan.' AeroSage also requests reimbursement for bid preparation costs. 1 AeroSage refers to its protest as having been jointly filed with SageCare, Inc., and argues that SageCare also is entitled to reimbursement. Our Office recognized, and docketed, the protest as filed solely by AeroSage, LLC. SageCare submitted a quotation in response to the RFQ, and filed a request to intervene in AeroSage's protest. We denied this request because SageCare was not the awardee, and the agency found SageCare's quotation technically non-responsive, and thus SageCare did not show that it had a substantial chance of receiving an award if AeroSage's protest was denied.