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B-225439.5 1 (1987-07-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmtw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o The Comptroller General Kof the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- Interface Flooring Systems, Inc.--Claim for Attorneys' Fees File: B-225439.5 Date: Jul4 22 ,987 DIGEST 1. Where protest involving challenges on distinct grounds to two specifications in request for proposal calling for award by line item of separate indefinite quantity contracts is denied in part and sustained in part, protester is entitled to recover protest costs only for the issue on which it prevailed, as well as its defense of contracting agency's general timeliness challenge to the protest, since the issues raised in the protest in effect constituted two separate protests. Protester is not entitled to recover its protest costs for the issue on which the protest was denied, nor for another issue concerning a third distinct line item which protester withdrew as a basis for protest after the contracting agency decided not to carry out the action the protester had challenged. 2. Provision in Equal Access to Justice Act limiting attorneys' fees to $75/hour does not apply to recovery of attorneys' fees under Competition in Contracting Act, which requires only that the fees recovered be reasonable. To be reasonable, attorneys' fees must reflect the attorneys' customary hourly rates and must be in line with prevailing rates for similar services. DECISION Interface Flooring Systems, Inc. requests that our Office direct the General Services Administration (GSA) to reim- burse Interface in full for its attorneys' fees incurred in connection with its protest challenging as defective certain specifications in request for proposals (RFP) No. FCNH-F8- 1887-N-7-22-86, issued by GSA for various types of floor coverings. We denied the protest in part, rejecting Interface's challenge to the specification for vinyl hard- back carpet tiles, and sustained it in part, finding that the specification for antimicrobial carpet tile was

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