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B-419123.6 May 05, 2021 1 (2021-05-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaomdr0001 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 Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Ajanta Consulting, LLC--Costs File: B-419123.6 Date: May 5, 2021 Stowell B. Holcomb, Esq., Jackson Holcomb LLP, for the protester. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, and Erika L. Whelan Retta, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation for reimbursement of protest costs is denied where the agency did not unduly delay implementing the proposed corrective action. DECISION Ajanta Consulting, LLC, a small business of San Antonio, Texas, requests that our Office recommend it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the award of multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA865020R4120, issued by the Department of the Air Force, to provide service support for the Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Joint Base San Antonio, and other locations. We deny the request. BACKGROUND Ajanta filed its protest with our Office on September 11, 2020, contesting the Air Force's award of multiple IDIQ contracts under the solicitation.1 Ajanta also challenged the agency's evaluation that its proposal was ineligible for award. Specifically, Ajanta's 1 Specifically, the Air Force awarded contracts to the following eleven firms: Avosys Technology, Inc.; Bestica, Inc.; Cape Fox Federal Integrators, LLC; ERP360 Solutions Group, LLC; Eagle Integrated Services, LLC; Innovative Element, LLC; JSToogood, LLC; JYG Innovations, LLC; Kapili Services, LLC; SierTek, Ltd.; and Venesco, LLC.