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B-284860.4 1 (2002-08-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoaj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: DevTech Systems, Inc. File: B-284860.4 Date: August 23, 2002 John E. Jensen, Esq., Shaw Pittman, for the protester. Stephanie L. Buser, Esq., U.S. Agency for International Development, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for a recommendation for the reimbursement of reasonable costs of filing and pursuing a protest is timely filed where the request was filed within 15 days of the protester being advised of the corrective action on which GAO's subsequent dismissal of the protest as academic was based. DECISION DevTech Systems, Inc. requests that we recommend that it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the award of contracts to the Academy for Educational Development (AED) and Creative Associates International, Inc., (CAI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. M/OP-99-644, issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), for advisory and technical assistance services. We recommend that USAID reimburse DevTech for its protest costs. This request for reimbursement of costs follows a long history of repeated protests and corrective actions by USAID. Initially issued in 1999, the RFP provided for the award of multiple indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts for a 3-year period. The successful contractors under the RFP will be required to provide USAID with short-term advisory and technical assistance in the areas of education, training, telecommunication/information technologies and related human development. The RFP stated that the awards would be made to the offerors submitting the proposals representing the best overall value to the government, with technical merit being considered more than twice as important as price. The RFP listed the following

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