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B-406040.3 1 (2013-07-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadppm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: The Argos Group, LLC--Costs File: B-406040.3 Date: July 3, 2013 Dennis Cotto, Esq., for the protester. Gary Davis, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Claim for costs is denied where the protester failed to submit a timely, adequately documented claim to the agency. DECISION The Argos Group, LLC, of Washington, D.C., requests that our Office recommend that the General Services Administration (GSA) reimburse the protester the amount of $89,217.50 for the costs of filing and pursuing its protest in The Argqos Group, LLC, B-406040, Jan. 24, 2012, 2012, CPD T 32, recon. denied, General Servs. Admin.--Recon., B-406040.2, Oct. 24, 2012, 2012 CPD T 297. We deny the claim for costs. BACKGROUND On October 20, 2011, Argos protested to our Office, challenging the terms of GSA's solicitation for the lease of space for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the vicinity of the Hudson Valley, New York. The protester's only complaint was that the solicitation failed to include a 10-percent evaluation preference for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small businesses as required by the Historically Underutilized Business Zone Act of 1997, 15 U.S.C. § 657a (2006) (hereinafter the HUBZone Act). The protest was submitted on behalf of Argos by Mr. Dennis Cotto, who represented that he was the general counsel and a principal of Argos. Mr. Cotto also submitted Argos' comments on the agency report in his capacity as general counsel and a principal of Argos.