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B-413043.3,B-413043.4 1 (2016-10-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsqj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L ' GAO . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: File: Date: Comptroller General of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below wassubjectto a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has -been approvedfor..pubLic release. __, Blue Ridge Wildlife & Pest Management, LLC B-413043.3; B-413043.4 October 12, 2016 Joshua C. Johnson, Esq., Johnson, Rosen & O'Keeffe, LLC, for the protester. Tyler W. Brown, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's corrective action, which includes soliciting and evaluating revised quotations, is denied where the record shows the agency reasonably determined the solicitation did not accurately reflect its needs. DECISION Blue Ridge Wildlife & Pest Management, LLC, of Roanoke, Virginia, protests corrective action taken by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in response to the firm's prior protest of a VA order issued to Timothy Stevens d/b/a A All Animal Control, also of Roanoke, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA246-16-Q-0661 for nuisance wildlife removal and pond management services at the VA Medical Center in Salem, Virginia. Blue Ridge alleges that the agency's corrective action is unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On March 15, 2016, the agency issued the solicitation as a total small business set-aside. RFQ at 1. The solicitation contemplated the award of a single, fixed-price contract with a base period of one year and four one-year options. Id. at 5, 23. The solicitation provided that the award would be made on a best value

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