Amentum Parsons Logistics Services LLC--Recon. (B-422697.14)

You should not care.

Categories: Reconsideration, interested party

Date: 18 September 2025

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-422697.14

Amentum Parsons Logistics Services requests reconsideration of GAO's October 2024 decision dismissing its protest of a LOGCAP V task order for Army prepositioned stock support services in Europe. GAO had dismissed the original protest after concluding that APLS was not an interested party because its proposal contained internal inconsistencies regarding compliance with the solicitation's small business subcontracting requirements, rendering the proposal ineligible for award regardless of the protest's outcome.

APLS argues for the first time on reconsideration that the agency would have been required to reopen discussions before eliminating APLS from competition, which would have preserved the firm's interested party status. GAO dismissed the request. The intervenor, KBR, raised the interested party challenge in its comments on the agency report and reasserted it in supplemental comments. APLS had multiple opportunities to respond—including in supplemental comments—but chose not to address the standing challenge or seek leave to file a response.

GAO's reconsideration rules do not permit parties to raise new arguments on reconsideration that could have been raised during the original protest proceedings. The arguments APLS now advances were available when KBR first challenged APLS's standing, but APLS elected not to engage on the issue until after the adverse decision was issued.

The request for reconsideration is dismissed. The case underscores the importance of defending standing when challenged: failure to respond to an interested party challenge during the protest cannot be remedied on reconsideration.

Digest

Request for reconsideration is dismissed where arguments that could have been made during initial consideration of the protest were not asserted until the request for reconsideration.