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B-420857.6,B-420857.7 Jan 10, 2024 1 (2024-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaopsq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.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 version has been - - - - - - approved for public release. Matter of: Associated Energy Group, LLC File: B-420857.6; B-420857.7 Date: January 10, 2024 Todd J. Canni, Esq., Stephen E. Ruscus, Esq., Kevin T. Barnett, Esq., Kevin N. Dorn, Esq., and Kaitlyn E. Toth, Esq., Baker Hostetler LLP, for the protester. Craig A. Holman, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., and Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for Kropp Holdings, Inc., the intervenor. Steven M. Sosko, Esq., and Celia M. DePaolis, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Michael P. Grogan, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the agency's disclosure to another offeror of an internal agency memorandum violated the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2107, or gives the offeror an unfair competitive advantage, is denied where the record demonstrates the agency's disclosure was not knowingly made, and the agency's conclusions regarding the lack of competitive usefulness of the information were reasonable. 2. Protest challenging the agency's decision to allow offerors to revise any parts of their proposals as part of its corrective action is denied where the agency's decision was reasonable and consistent with the discretion afforded to agencies when taking corrective action. DECISION Associated Energy Group, LLC (AEG), of Miami, Florida, protests the scope of the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA) corrective action, taken in response to a previous protest by Kropp Holdings, Inc. (KHI), of Overland Park, Kansas, in connection with request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE608-21-R-0203, issued for commercial payment card solutions and transaction processing services. The protester contends that DLA violated the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2107 (hereinafter, the Procurement Integrity Act or PIA) when it released Procurement Integrity Act protected information to KHI, and the agency's decision to allow

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