Mission Analytics, LLC—Reconsideration (B-423165.2)

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Category: Reconsideration, corrective actions

Date: 15 April 2025

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423165.2

Mission Analytics, LLC, requested reconsideration of GAO’s prior denial of its protest regarding the VA’s corrective action following an agency-level protest under RFQ No. 36C26224Q1803 for video display monitors. Mission argued GAO’s original decision was based on errors of fact and law, particularly about the nonmanufacturer rule and salient characteristic compliance. However, GAO found Mission merely disagreed with the outcome and repeated earlier arguments without identifying any errors that would change the result.

Mission initially protested the VA’s corrective action decision after VA discovered it had mistakenly assumed a waiver of the nonmanufacturer rule applied. Because no waiver existed, VA terminated the award and decided to conduct new market research and revise its solicitation. Mission protested this as unreasonable. GAO upheld VA's discretion to cancel a flawed solicitation based on erroneous initial assumptions. In reconsideration, GAO reaffirmed that the original solicitation could not result in a proper award, because no offeror, including Mission, could meet both the salient Energy Star requirement and the nonmanufacturer rule, validating VA’s corrective action.

Mission’s request for reconsideration was denied. GAO confirmed that Mission failed to show factual or legal error that would alter the original decision.

Digest

Request for reconsideration is denied where requester does not demonstrate that any alleged error of fact or law would alter outcome of decision.