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September 4, 2024
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today issued the following legal
decisions and opinions of the Comptroller General:
*Bid Protest Decision:*
B-420935.12, String King Lacrosse, LLC--Costs, August 16, 2024
https://www.gao.gov/products/B-420935.12 [
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String King Lacrosse, LLC, a small business of Gardena, California, requests
that our Office recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) reimburse the firm the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its
protests with respect to request for proposals (RFP) No. 75A50322R00008. The
solicitation sought proposals for disposable medical isolation gowns for use
during public national emergencies and pandemic events. We dismissed String
King's most recent protest--its second protest with our Office concerning this
solicitation--as academic on April 9, 2024, prior to the submission of the
agency's report, based upon the agency's notice of corrective action. The
requester argues that it should be reimbursed the costs of pursuing both of its
protests because, in each instance, the agency unduly delayed taking corrective
action in the face of a clearly meritorious protest.
We deny the request.
GAO also issued the following notice today:
*Bid Protest Notice:*
GAO Updates Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS) Filing Fee
https://www.gao.gov/legal/bid-protests/reference-materials#paragraph-496 [
https://www.gao.gov/legal/bid-protests/reference-materials?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#paragraph-496
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Effective October 1, 2024, the Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS)
filing fee for new protests will be $500. Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. § 3555(c), GAO
is authorized to charge a filing fee to support the establishment and operation
of an electronic protest filing and document dissemination system. GAO has
determined that a fee adjustment is warranted in order to ensure that GAO
recovers the costs to establish and operate the system.
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