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B-404800.2,B-404800.3 1 (2011-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadohd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A 0 Comptroller General c ountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Al Procurement JVD--Costs File: B-404800.2; B-404800.3 Date: August 24, 2011 Derrick Storms, Esq., Storms and Associates, PA, for the protester. Maj. Christine C. Fontenelle, Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Reimbursement of costs of filing and pursuing protest is recommended where reasonable agency inquiry into initial protest allegations would have revealed that the protest was clearly meritorious because there were admitted inconsistencies in the agency's evaluation of the protester's past performance and the agency did not take corrective action until after the protester filed comments on the agency report. 2. Request for reimbursement of costs for filing and pursuing a protest asserting that the agency unduly delayed implementation of promised corrective action is denied, where the agency took reasonably prompt steps to implement its promised corrective action. DECISION Al Procurement JVD (Al), a joint venture of Al Procurement LLC and Satellite Janitorial Company, Inc., of Miami, Florida, requests that our Office recommend the reimbursement of Al's costs of filing and pursuing a protest challenging the award of a contract to HamHed LLC, of New Albany, Indiana, by the Department of the Army under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W91 1SA-11 -T-0059. Al also requests that we recommend the reimbursement of its costs of filing and pursuing a subsequent protest, in which it argued that the Department of the Army did not timely implement its proposed corrective action. We recommend that the agency reimburse Al's costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the evaluation of its proposal. We deny the protester's request that we recommend reimbursement of the costs of Al's protest that the agency unduly delayed implementing its promised corrective action.