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B-408575.2 1 (2014-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqhf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AXIS Management Group, LLC File: B-408575.2 Date: May 9, 2014 Venkat Reddy, AXIS Management Group, LLC, for the protester. Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency corrective action taken to implement our recommendation in a prior decision is denied where the record shows the agency's decision to amend the solicitation and seek revised price proposals as part of its corrective action was reasonable and within the ambit of the agency's broad discretion in this area. 2. Challenge that the agency's corrective action unfairly favors the current awardee is denied where there is no evidence that the release of price information resulted from preferential treatment or any improper action on the part of the agency. DECISION AXIS Management Group, LLC, of McLean, Virginia, protests the corrective action undertaken by the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), under request for proposals (RFP) No. G1 2PS00932 for laboratory operational support at the agency's National Water Quality Laboratory, taken in response to our decision sustaining a prior protest filed by AXIS. AXIS argues that the agency's corrective action is untimely, does not comply with our prior recommendation, and prejudicially favors the awardee, Cherokee Nations Technology Solutions, Inc., of Lakewood, Colorado. We deny the protest. The corrective action at issue in this protest was undertaken by the USGS in response to our Office's decision sustaining a prior protest filed by AXIS challenging the agency's price evaluation. See .qenerally AXIS Management Group LLC, B-408575, Nov. 13, 2013, 2013 CPD T 247. In that decision, we concluded that the

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