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B-412742.4 1 (2016-12-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsxe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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: 22nd Century Team, LLC--Costs File: B-412742.4 Date: December 15, 2016 Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Matthew Schoonover, Esq., and Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., Koprince Law LLC, for the protester. Debra J. Talley, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for a recommendation that the agency reimburse the protester the costs of filing and pursuing its protest is granted, where the record shows that the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action in the face of a clearly meritorious protest. DECISION 22nd Century Team, LLC, of McLean, Virginia, requests that we recommend that it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protests challenging the award of a task order to Ellumen, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W52P1 J- 14-R-0123 for strategic communication support services. We dismissed the protests after the agency advised our Office that it would take corrective action. 22nd Century argues that its protests were clearly meritorious and that the agency's corrective action was unduly delayed. We grant the request in part and deny it in part. BACKGROUND On August 13, 2015, the Army issued the RFP for strategic communication support services to Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) small