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B-419194.9 Sep 30, 2022 1 (2022-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaontl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: NOVAD Management Consulting, LLC File: B-419194.9 Date: September 30, 2022 Gunjan R. Talati, Esq., Jennifer L. Andrews, Esq., and Jamie C. Lipsitz, Esq., Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, and Marlon Griffith, Esq., The Griffith Law Group PLLC, for the protester. Julie Holvik, Esq., Justin D. Haselden, Esq., and Julie K. Cannatti, Esq., Department of Housing and Urban Development, for the agency. Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., Michael A. Willems, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request that GAO recommend reimbursement of protest costs is granted in part where the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action in response to clearly meritorious protest arguments, and denied in part where other protest grounds were not clearly meritorious and are readily severable. DECISION NOVAD Management Consulting, LLC (NOVAD), a small business of Landover, Maryland, requests that our Office recommend the agency reimburse it for the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing a protest of the award of a contract by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to Compu-Link Corporation, doing business as Celink, of Lansing, Michigan, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 86614920R00007 for reverse mortgage loan services. The protester challenged the agency's evaluation of proposals, conduct of discussions, and best-value tradeoff. The protester also argued that the agency insufficiently addressed an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) on the part of Celink. After our Office advised the parties during an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) conference that GAO likely would sustain the protest, the agency stated that it would take corrective action, and we dismissed the protest as academic. The request is granted in part and denied in part.

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