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B-201613.2 1 (1982-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkat0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 71?3 -9- 9- 25 DECISION FILE; B-20161392 ./i MATTER OF: Brum Construction Company DIGEST; In the abselnce of specific statutory author- ization or judicial precedent, attorneys' fees and related costs of pursuing a complaint regarding the award of a contract under a Fed- eral grant will not be allowed, Brutun Construction Company (Brutun) requests that we direct the Itrvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reimburse it for the costs, including attorneys' fees, of pursuing a yrant cortplaint reyardiuyq a procurement under an IPA construction grant. rumm's complaint was sustained by this Office in our decision U-201013, October 6, .981# 81-2 CPD 280. Brumm believes that in the absence of such reimbursement, claimants will be dissuaded from bringing illegal actions to the atten- tion of our office. We find no legal basis to award these costs. This Office will not award the cost of pursuing a bid protest in direct Federal procurements because of the absence of specific legal authority to do so. T & 11 Company, 54 Comp. Gen, 1021 (1975), 75-1 CPD 345. In this respect, we are not aware of any statute or binding judicial precedent that authorizes such an award. Similarly, we are not aware of any legal authority that would permit us to sanction the payment of these costs in proceedings involving complaints per- taining to the award of contracts under Federal grants. The request is denied. Acting Comptroller Genera of the United States / - * *~ * X~r 9 *4 *~i -. . . - *6.0 . .%p. -* 9 - ..9 .- . . -- , w THE COMPTROLLIER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATE0 VWA E H I N G T ON,. ClO. 30 0 5 46B DATE: January 27, 1982 I* 4% * I I.. * I. *J. * 'I .4' 4. a P. '4 I, 'I I- I) ~; 4,j sill' ? I' I . . f , . .

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