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B-414573.3 1 (2017-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtzd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Protection Strategies, Inc. File: B-414573.3 Date: November 9, 2017 Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., Jacqueline K. Unger, Esq., and Timothy F. Valley, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. George C. Brown, Esq., and Angela E. Clark, Esq., United States Securities and Exchange Commission, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST GAO recommends reimbursement of protest costs where the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action in response to a clearly meritorious protest that objected to the agency's source selection determination as failing to adequately document consideration of the underlying merits of offerors' proposals; reimbursement is not recommended with regard to other protest grounds where those grounds are severable from the successful protest ground. DECISION Protection Strategies, Inc. (PSI), of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, requests that our Office recommend that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reimburse its costs of filing and pursuing its protest of the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with PAE Professional Services, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SECHQ1-16-Q-0109, for background investigative and adjudication services. We grant the request in part and deny it in part. BACKGROUND The RFQ provided for the establishment of a BPA against the successful vendor's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 8.405-2. Agency Report (AR), Tab 4, RFQ amend. 1, at 1. The purpose of the BPA was to provide services and deliverables to the SEC's Office of

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