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B-418631.4 Feb 08, 2021 1 (2021-02-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecqn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: Apex Transit Solutions, LLC--Costs File: B-418631.4 Date: February 8, 2021 Manju Gupta, Esq., and Halden R. Schwallie, Esq., Ulmer & Berne LLP, for the protester. Kimberly Kegowicz, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Kasia Dourney, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for a recommendation for reimbursement of protest costs is denied where none of the protest grounds raised in several protests was clearly meritorious and where the agency did not unduly delay taking corrective actions in response to those protests. DECISION Apex Transit Solutions, LLC, a small business of Cleveland, Ohio, requests that our Office recommend that it be reimbursed the costs associated with filing and pursuing its four protests challenging the award of a contract to GC Logistics, LLC, a service- disabled veteran-owned small business, under requests for quotations (RFQ) Nos. 36C25019Q0494 and 36C2502000093, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for ambulette transportation services. Apex argues that its protests were clearly meritorious and that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action. We deny the request. BACKGROUND On June 13, 2019, the agency issued RFQ No. 36C25019Q0494, as a small business set-aside, seeking proposals for ambulette transportation services for the VA Cleveland Healthcare System located in Cleveland, Ohio. Protest (B-418114) at 2. The VA conducted the procurement using the simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 13.5, and anticipated award for a base year and