About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

LOG IN
LOG IN


B-422659.4 Jan 14, 2025 1 (2025-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaorkp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O U.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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: 22nd Century Technologies, Inc.--Costs File: B-422659.4 Date: January 14, 2025 W. Brad English, Esq., Maynard Nexsen, PC, for the protester. Julie A. Neville, Esq., Administrative Office of the United States Courts, for the agency. Michael P. Price, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request that GAO recommend reimbursement of protest costs is denied where the request concerns protest challenges that were not intertwined with the meritorious protest ground or otherwise independently clearly meritorious. DECISION 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, requests that our Office recommend that it be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the issuance of a call order to Lamb Informatics Limited, of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. USCA24Q0007, issued by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) for centralized management and operational support services for the agency's enterprise information technology infrastructure. The requester contends that it should be reimbursed for all costs associated with its underlying protest. We deny the request. BACKGROUND AOUSC issued the RFQ on October 31, 2023, to holders of the judiciary information technology services blanket purchase agreement (BPA). Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1. The RFQ contemplated the issuance of a single fixed-price call order against the underlying BPA and established that the agency would issue the order to the vendor whose quotation represented the best value to the government considering three evaluation factors: (1) technical approach; (2) corporate experience; and (3) price. Id.