Decision Released: FDA Security Installation and Maintenance Services protest denial

File B-422661.2

Digest

Request for recommendation that protest costs be reimbursed is denied where the challenge to the award of a sole-source contract is not clearly meritorious.

Discussion

Trilogy contends that reimbursement is warranted because its protest included clearly meritorious grounds, and because the agency’s corrective action, which was taken after the agency filed its report, was unduly delayed. Req. for Costs at 3. The agency objects to the request, arguing that the protest grounds were not clearly meritorious …

Decision

Trilogy Secured Services, LLC, of Springfield, Virginia, requests that we recommend the reimbursement of costs it incurred in filing and pursuing its protest challenging the award of a sole-source contract to Birdi Systems, Inc., of Pasadena, California, under solicitation No. 75F40124C00054, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for security installation and maintenance services. Trilogy argues that its protest was clearly meritorious, and that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action.

We deny the request.

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