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B-416800.4 1 (2020-01-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeanq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 Decision Comptroller General of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been ---------------------------------approved for public release. Matter of: Columbia Ancillary Services, Inc. File: Date: B-416800.4 January 21, 2020 Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., John M. Mattox II, Esq., Haley E. Claxton, Esq., and Gregory P. Weber, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the protester. Natica C. Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., Evan Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that agency reimburse costs of two sequential protests because agency failed to address issues alleged in first protest is denied because the agency promptly proposed corrective action in response to the second protest on the basis of new information not available to it during the pendency of the first protest. DECISION Columbia Ancillary Services, Inc., a small business of Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, requests that our Office recommend that it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing two protests of the decision to set aside a procurement for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to acquire durable medical equipment (DME) and related services. The protester alleges that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action in response to a clearly meritorious protest because the agency's corrective action taken in response to Columbia's first protest did not effectively resolve its protest issues, forcing it to protest the procurement a second time on the same grounds. We deny the request. BACKGROUND On August 20, 2018, the agency issued the request for proposals (RFP) as an SDVOSB set-aside. Agency Response at 1. The solicitation contemplated the award of nine fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for each of nine major sites in

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