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B-422114.3 May 23, 2024 1 (2024-05-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqpd0001 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. The entire decision has now been approved for public release. Matter of: VSolvit, LLC File: B-422114.3 Date: May 23, 2024 Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Eric A. Valle, Esq., Joseph P. Loman, Esq., and Annie B. Hudgins, Esq., Piliero Mazza, PLLC, for the protester. Azine Farzami, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation's provisions regarding citizenship of proposed personnel contained some ambiguity, and the agency took corrective action following a conference call in which our Office expressed concern about the awardee's compliance with the citizenship provisions, we reject protester's request that we recommend reimbursement of protest costs on the basis that the protest grounds were not clearly meritorious. DECISION VSolvit, LLC, of Ventura, California, requests that we recommend reimbursement of the costs VSolvit incurred in filing and pursuing its protests challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) issuance of a task order to Sohum Systems, LLC, pursuant to task order request for proposals (TORP) No. 123144-23-R-00091 for information technology support services.2 We dismissed VSolvit's protests following the agency's 1 The TORP was issued as a small business set-aside to contractors holding indefinite- delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) multiple-award contracts under the National Institutes of Health's Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3-SB) program. 2 As discussed below, VSolvit filed an initial protest and a supplemental protest docketed as B-422114, and B-422114.2, respectively.

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