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B-404741.4 1 (2011-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadohk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A 0 Comptroller General Accuntabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n ...................................................................................................................... Matter of: Friendship Dental Laboratories, Inc. File: B-404741.4 Date: August 24, 2011 Joseph Katz, Esq., Huddles Jones Sorteberg & Dachille, PC, for the protester. Tracy J. Downing, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request that GAO recommend reimbursement of costs for filing and pursuing a protest against the agency's evaluation of offerors is granted where the protester raised a clearly meritorious protest ground and the agency did not take prompt corrective action. DECISION Friendship Dental Laboratories, Inc., of Rosedale, Maryland, requests that our Office recommend the reimbursement of Friendship's costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the award of a contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs to Green Dental Laboratories, Inc., of Heber Springs, Arkansas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA-256-10-RP-0164, for the fabrication and repair of fixed and removable dental prosthesis. Friendship also requests that we recommend the reimbursement of its costs associated with its subsequent protest challenging the award of a sole-source purchase order No. VA598-C-15277 to Green for similar services. We grant the protester's request regarding the cost of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the award of the contract under the RFP, but deny the protester's request for costs regarding its protest against the award of the sole-source purchase order. The VA issued the RFP on August 25, 2010, seeking proposals to provide for the fabrication and repair of dental fixed and removable prosthesis for the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Dental Service. The RFP contemplated an

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