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B-415907.3 1 (2019-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvls0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: AECOM-Inquip Joint Venture--Costs File: B-415907.3 Date: January 22, 2019 Giovanni Ruscitti, Esq., Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti LLP, for the protester. Alfred L. Faustino, Esq., Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST This Office will not recommend reimbursement of protest costs where the agency's cancellation of the solicitation, which rendered the protest academic, was not a corrective action taken as a result of the protest. DECISION AECOM-Inquip Joint Venture (AIJV), of Greenwood Village, Colorado, requests that our Office recommend that it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protest of the termination of its contract, which was awarded by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91238-17- R-0049, for the construction of levee improvements, including cutoff wall construction and earthwork, to the Natomas East Main Drainage Canal levee at Reach H in Sacramento, California. AIJV maintains that the Corps unduly delayed taking corrective action in response to its clearly meritorious protest. We deny the request. BACKGROUND On December 27, 2017, the Corps awarded the contract at issue to AIJV. Response to Req. for Costs at 1. After receiving a debriefing, Nordic/Great Lakes E & I Joint Venture (NGJV), the only other offeror in the competition, filed a protest on January 10, 2018