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B-418165.4 1 (2020-08-21)

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GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                          The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                  a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                         1been approved for public release.


Matter of:  ORBIS Sibro, Inc.

File:        B-418165.4

Date:       August 21, 2020

Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., Wilmer & Lee, PA, for the protester.
Chinedum U. Okparaeke, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Request for recommendation to reimburse the costs of filing and pursuing an earlier
protest is denied where the agency did not unduly delay implementing the proposed
corrective action.
DECISION

ORBIS Sibro, Inc., of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, requests that our Office
recommend that the Department of the Navy, reimburse the firm the reasonable costs of
filing and pursuing its protest challenging the issuance of a task order to Morgan
Business Consulting, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, under task order solicitation
No. N6660418R3012, issued by the Department of the Navy, for program management,
financial and business management, technical and engineering management, and
integrated logistics support services.

We deny the request.

BACKGROUND

ORBIS Sibro filed its protest with our Office, docketed as B-418165, on October 15,
2019, arguing that the agency's cost realism analysis and past performance evaluation
of its proposal were unreasonable and these errors resulted in a flawed source selection
decision.' On October 31, prior to the agency report due date, the Navy informed our

1 Although firms that compete for task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-
quantity contracts are generally referred to as vendors who submit quotations and

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