Protest Spotlight

(This regular feature highlights protests decided by the Government Accountability Office.)

Agency: Defense Logistics Agency-Energy

Protester: Onésimus Defense

What GAO found: Onésimus Defense protested corrective action taken by DLA in connection with a solicitation for confined space training, arguing DLA's amendments to the RFP's pricing provisions for travel costs were improper and inconsistent with regulations.

The protest is the contractor's third related to this procurement, GAO notes. The agency partly denied and partly dismissed the protest.

"In sum, we find that Onésimus’s protest of DLA’s corrective action reflects little more than Onésimus’s preference for the original RFP pricing provisions, and its attempt to relitigate its initial protest and exclude other offerors from the competition," GAO writes.

The decision: http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/671741.pdf