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B-410268.2 1 (2015-01-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqvm0001 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: Palmetto Isotopes File: B-410268.2 Date: January 5, 2015 Tenley A. Carp, Esq., David Felt, Esq., and Eric D. Olson, Esq., Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, for the protester. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Reimbursement of costs is not recommended where the agency did not unduly delay taking corrective action. DECISION Palmetto Isotopes requests that our Office recommend reimbursement of Palmetto's costs for filing a protest challenging the Department of Veterans Affairs' sole source extension of contract No. VA24714P3162 for certain radiopharmaceutical and non-radiopharmaceutical items. We deny the request. Palmetto filed its protest on August 21, 2014, alleging that the contract extension was improper. On August 29, the agency advised this Office, and Palmetto, that it was taking corrective action, stating that the challenged contract would be terminated. Thereafter, the agency posted a solicitation for the requirements to the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website. On September 9, we dismissed Palmetto's protest as academic. Where a procuring agency takes corrective action in response to a protest, we may recommend that it reimburse the protester its protest costs if we determine that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action in the face of a clearly meritorious protest. See, e..L,Taylor Consultants, Inc.--Costs, B-400324.3, Feb. 2, 2009, 2009 CPD 37 at 3. As a general rule, if an agency takes corrective action on or before the due date for its protest report, we regard such action as prompt and decline to

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