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B-421097.5 Apr 06, 2023 1 (2023-04-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaoomi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.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: Draken International, Inc. File: B-421097.5 Date: April 6, 2023 John E. McCarthy Jr., Esq., and Issac D. Schabes, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., Aaron J. Weaver, Esq., and Christian H. Robertson II, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that protester be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protest is granted where protest was clearly meritorious and the agency delayed taking corrective action until after record was fully developed. DECISION Draken International, LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas, requests that our Office recommend it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the issuance of a task order to Top Aces Corporation, of Reno, Nevada, under solicitation No.CAF-CAS- 14, issued by the Department of the Air Force for adversary air training services. The protester challenged the agency's evaluation of proposals and best-value tradeoff decision. We grant the request. BACKGROUND On September 26, 2022, Draken filed its protest against the Air Force's issuance of a task order to Top Aces Corporation. As relevant to this request, the protester argued in part that the Air Force unreasonably evaluated proposals under the technical experience subfactor and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff. After development of the protest record, the cognizant GAO attorney conducted an outcome prediction alternative dispute resolution (ADR) conference. During that ADR,

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