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B-418631.8 Aug 13, 2021 1 (2021-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaombz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o 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-418631.8 Date: August 13, 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 1. Request that GAO recommend reimbursement of costs of filing and pursuing protests challenging the agency's evaluation of past performance is granted in part, where the primary issue presented was clearly meritorious, yet the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action; reimbursement is also recommended with regard to other allegations that were intertwined with clearly meritorious protest ground. 2. Request that GAO recommend reimbursement of protest costs related to challenge to the price evaluation is denied where the allegation was not clearly meritorious and not intertwined with clearly meritorious protest ground. 3. Request for a recommendation of reimbursement of costs of filing and pursuing multiple prior protests is dismissed as untimely where the request effectively seeks reconsideration of a decision denying a prior request that the same protest costs be reimbursed. DECISION Apex Transit Solutions, LLC, a small business of Cleveland, Ohio, requests that our Office recommend that the firm be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protests of the contract awards to GC Logistics, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, of Ridgeland, Mississippi. The contract awards were made under requests for quotations (RFQ) Nos. 36C25019Q0494 and 36C2502000093, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for ambulette transportation services for the VA Cleveland Healthcare System located in Cleveland, Ohio. Apex contends that the VA failed to properly implement multiple corrective actions taken in response to protests related to this procurement. In its most recent