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B-410210.2 1 (2015-11-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrzj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: File: Date: Comptroller General of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc. B-410210.2 November 30, 2015 Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., Megan C. Connor, Esq., and Kimi N. Murakami, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Marvin Kent Gibbs, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for reimbursement of costs of filing and pursuing a protest is denied where the record fails to establish a nexus between the basis of the protest raised by the protester and the basis for the agency's corrective action. DECISION Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc. (Bhate), of Birmingham, Alabama, requests that our Office recommend it be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the award of a contract to Plexus Scientific Corporation (Plexus), under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8903-14-R-0002, issued by the Department of the Air Force for environmental remediation at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. We deny the request. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract with a period of performance of 120 months from the date of contract award. RFP § L at 1.1 The 1 The Air Force used a Bates numbering system for individual tabs in preparing the agency report; our citations are to those numbers.

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