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B-416728.4 1 (2020-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaqx0001 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Barbaricum LLC--Costs File: B-416728.4 Date: January 29, 2020 David Y. Yang, Esq., and Daniel P. Radthorne, Esq., Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker, LLP, for the protester. Colonel C. Taylor Smith and Jason R. Smith, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, 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 for the reimbursement of costs of defending against the agency's request for reconsideration is granted where protester incurred additional expense in responding to the request, and where the request for reconsideration failed to identify errors of fact or law in our prior decision and repeated previously-made arguments which our Office considered and rejected. DECISION Barbaricum LLC, of Washington, D.C., requests that our Office recommend reimbursement by the Department of the Air Force of Barbaricum's costs of defending against an Air Force request for reconsideration of a prior decision sustaining a challenge filed by Barbaricum of an Air Force task order for opinion research services, as well as the costs of pursuing this request. We grant the request. BACKGROUND This request for reimbursement of costs relates to an underlying decision of our Office sustaining Barbaricum's challenge to the Air Force's issuance of a task order under a request for quotations (RFQ) using Federal Supply Schedule procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. While portions of the protest were denied, we sustained Barbaricum's contention that the agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee's quotation as technically acceptable. Barbaricum LLC, B-416728,