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B-415318.4 1 (2019-02-07)

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G&O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            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:  ARP Sciences, LLC

File:        B-415318.4

Date:        February 7, 2019

Michael D. McGill, Esq., Thomas L. McGovern III, Esq., Christine Reynolds, Esq., and
Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for the protester.
Frank A. March, Esq., Department of the Army, 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

Request for reimbursement of protest costs is denied where the initial protest grounds
were not clearly meritorious and where the agency took prompt corrective action in
response to the second supplemental protest.
DECISION

ARP Sciences, LLC, a small business, of Rockville, Maryland, requests that our Office
recommend that the Department of the Army reimburse it for the reasonable costs of
filing and pursuing a protest of the award of a contract to SNA International, LLC (SNA),
of Alexandria, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W81XWH-16-R-0021, for
scientific, technical, administrative, and logistical support services.

We deny the request.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, issued on July 20, 2016 as a set-aside for small businesses, provided for the
award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for scientific, technical,
administrative, and logistical support services for the Armed Forces Medical Examiner
System (AFMES).1 AR, Tab 3, RFP, at 2; Performance Work Statement (PWS) at 1.

1 AFMES is a tri-service organization that has the overall mission to provide
comprehensive and innovative medico-legal services worldwide. Agency Report (AR),
Tab 3, Performance Work Statement (PWS), at 9. AFMES provides mission support to
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