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B-411854.4,B-411854.7 1 (2016-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadssz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General 4 Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: ANAMAR Environmental Consulting, Inc.--Costs File: B-411854.4; B-411854.7 Date: November 9, 2016 Alan I. Saltman, Esq., and Stephen J. Kelleher, Esq., Smith, Currie & Hancock, LLP, for the protester. Susan E. Symanski, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's request that GAO recommend reimbursement of the costs of filing and pursuing protests is granted where the agency's failure to implement corrective action after the first protest put the protester to the expense of a second protest asserting the same clearly meritorious allegations, and where, in a third protest, the agency unduly delayed in taking corrective action in response to a clearly meritorious protest. DECISION ANAMAR Environmental Consulting, Inc., of Gainesville, Florida, requests that our Office recommend that it be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protests of the award of a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912EP-1 5-R-0006, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (Corps) for specialized professional services. We dismissed ANAMAR's first and supplemental protests, its second protest, and its third protest after the agency advised our Office, following each protest, that it would take corrective action. ANAMAR Envtl. Consulting, Inc., B-411854, B-411854.2, Sept. 9, 2015 (unpublished decision); ANAMAR Envtl. Consulting, Inc., B-411854.3, Jan. 19, 2016 (unpublished decision); ANAMAR Envtl. Consulting, Inc., B-411854.5, June 9, 2016 (unpublished decision). ANAMAR argues that its protests were clearly meritorious and that it was forced to file its second and third protests--alleging the same procurement errors as those set forth in the first protest--and incur the associated costs, because the agency failed to properly implement the promised