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B-297807.2 1 (2007-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaap0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General WAS Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Al Long Ford--Costs File: B-297807.2 Date: October 18, 2007 Ronald G. Acho, Esq., Cummings McClorey Davis & Acho, PLC, for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's request for recommendation that it be reimbursed its proposal preparation and protest costs is denied where protester failed to submit an adequately documented claim in a timely manner and failed to make a reasonable attempt to reach an agreement with the agency prior to filing at Government Accountability Office. DECISION Al Long Ford (ALF) requests that we recommend that it recover $477,051.31 from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command for the costs of preparing the proposal that it submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV- 05-R-D 117 and for the costs of filing and pursuing its successful protest in Al Long Ford, B-297807, Apr. 12, 2006, 2006 CPD ¶ 68. We deny the request. In Al Long Ford, we sustained ALF's protest against the rejection of its proposal and the award of a contract for light utility trucks to American Equipment Company. We found that the agency should not have found ALF's delivery schedule high risk and recalculated it to the protester's prejudice without raising the matter with the protester in discussions. Because the agency had proceeded with performance and the trucks were urgently required, we did not recommend that discussions be reopened; instead, we recommended that the protester be reimbursed its proposal preparation costs. We also recommended that the agency reimburse ALF for the costs of filing and pursuing its protest. Our decision advised that, in accordance with our Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.8(f) (2007), ALF needed to submit its