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B-418571.6 1 (2020-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebls0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Zeneth Technology Partners File: B-418571.6 Date: July 24, 2020 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., and Lana Meller, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Megan R. Nathan, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that protester be reimbursed costs of filing and pursuing protest challenging the establishment of blanket purchase agreements with various vendors is denied where the protester has not shown the initial protest was clearly meritorious or that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action in response to the supplemental protest. DECISION Zeneth Technology Partners, of Vienna, Virginia, requests that our Office recommend that the Department of Education reimburse attorneys' fees and costs that the firm incurred in filing and pursuing a protest under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 910031- 19-R-0012, issued by the Department of Education for the provision of cybersecurity and privacy support services, after the agency took voluntary corrective action in response to the protest. Zeneth argues that the agency did not take timely corrective action in the face of a clearly meritorious protest. We deny the request. BACKGROUND On March 15, 2020, Zeneth protested the agency's decision to not establish a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the firm. Protest (B-418571). Zeneth challenged various aspects of the agency's evaluation and award decision, to which the agency responded in an agency report dated April 15, 2020. Memorandum of Law (MOL) (B-418571) at 6-12. On April 27, the protester submitted comments and a supplemental protest, where the firm argued, among other things, that the agency improperly rejected

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