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B-410364.2 1 (2014-11-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqtk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: DGC International File: B-410364.2 Date: November 26, 2014 Ayman Bekdash, DGC International, for the protester. Scott Risner, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's proposed corrective action, which included reopening discussions, requesting revised proposals, and making a new award decision, is denied where the agency reasonably determined that it had conducted unequal discussions and that corrective action was necessary to remedy the error. DECISION DGC International (DGC) of Vienna, Virginia, protests the corrective action proposed by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in connection with the agency's procurement of logistical support services for USAID's mission in Afghanistan under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-306-14-000014. USAID took corrective action in response to DGC's earlier protest, which we subsequently dismissed as academic. See DGC Int'l, B-410364, Sept. 18, 2014. DGC argues that the corrective action is improper because it does not remedy what DGC views as the underlying defects in the agency's initial evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on May 14, 2014, and provided for the award of a fixed-price, 2-year contract for logistical support services (such as warehousing, open-air staging, and property management services) to support USAID's efforts to reutilize and distribute foreign excess personal property available after the drawdown of international forces in Afghanistan. See RFP at 7; attach. J1, Statement of

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