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B-412548.5 1 (2016-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsns0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below wassubjectto a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision ....-.-------------- Matter of: Brandes Associates Inc. File: B-412548.5 Date: August 24, 2016 Jason A. Carey, Esq., J. Hunter Bennett, Esq., Kevin T. Barnett, Esq., and Wesley W. Wintermyer, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for the protester. Samantha M. Basso, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that agency reimburse protester's costs is denied where agency took prompt corrective action in response to a supplemental protest and to newly-discovered information that was not previously available to the agency. DECISION Brandes Associates, Inc., of Lone Tree, Colorado, requests that our Office recommend that the Department of the Navy reimburse attorneys' fees and costs that the firm incurred in filing and pursuing a protest under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-13-R-3157, issued by the Navy to procure program management services, after the Navy took voluntary corrective action in response to the protest. Brandes argues that the agency did not take timely corrective action in the face of a clearly meritorious protest. We deny the request. BACKGROUND On December 14, 2015, Brandes filed a protest with our Office challenging the agency's decision to issue a task order to American Electronics, Inc. (Amelex), after a competition between small businesses under the agency's Seaport-e multiple- award task order contract. Brandes challenged various aspects of the evaluation of proposals, including that the awardee had engaged in an improper bait and switch of key personnel, or failed to inform the agency that various key personnel were

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