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B-419000.3 Feb 18, 2021 1 (2021-02-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaomhh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ioo- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G A O A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Cooper/Ports America, LLC File: B-419000.3 Date: February 18, 2021 W. Barron A. Avery, Esq., Brian V. Johnson, Esq., and Laura M. Gronauer, Esq., Baker & Hostetler LLP, for the protester. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Captain Seiji Ohashi, Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., and Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that protest costs be reimbursed is denied where the single protest ground remaining from the initial protest was not clearly meritorious, and where the agency took prompt corrective action in response to supplemental protest grounds. DECISION Cooper/Ports America, LLC (Cooper/Ports) of Houston, Texas, requests that our Office recommend that it be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protest of the award of a contract to James J. Flanagan Shipping Corporation (Flanagan), of Beaumont, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HTC711-20-R-R002, issued by the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM)1 for stevedoring and related terminal services at the Port of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and the Port of Corpus Christi, in Texas. We deny the request. 1 The Department of the Air Force is defending the request on behalf of USTRANSCOM, one of eleven unified combatant commands within the Department of Defense.

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